Shared Hosting & Dedicated Servers

As you most likely know, all websites require their own space on the web in order to be available 24/7. I provide a number of “Off The Shelf” shared hosting packages to suit most small-business and personal websites, however, please bear in mind that shared hosting accounts can be configured to your exact requirements should the example packages below be insufficient for your needs.

You may want to take a look at the Whois Search to find the domain name you want.

Simple Email-Only Hosting £40 pa: This service provides a simple ‘parking space’ for the domain name you have chosen and an unlimited number of email accounts for use with the domain name.
Mini Website Hosting £75 pa: This shared hosting account will provide you with 50MB of web space, PHP, Front-Page extensions, unlimited mail accounts, Perl/CGI, 5GB of bandwidth allowance per month and unlimited domain name mappings.
Standard Website Hosting £150 pa: This is the standard package that most small business websites require.
250MB of web space, 10GB monthly bandwidth, PHP, Perl/CGI, MySQL, Shared SSL, unlimited mail accounts, domain names and sub-domains.
Dedicated Servers: Dedicated servers are available from £100 per month. There are many reasons why you may need a dedicated server and just as many against so please get in touch to discuss the available options or request a quote.
Dedicated servers can be configured to any specification.

Domain Names

Here are the current prices for domain name purchases and renewals:

.co.uk £10 pa
.org.uk £10 pa
.com £20 pa
.net £20 pa
.org £20 pa

Please contact me for more information and prices for domain name transfers.

Some Hosting FAQ's

What Is Shared Hosting?

First off, I only supply Unix/Linux based hosting packages. In a *nix environment, you can have multiple users on the same server each restricted to his own space. The term shared refers to the sharing of resources, i.e. everyone who has a website hosted by the server shares the disk space, network bandwidth, processor etc. This means that if another user of the system runs a particularly processor intensive script, there will be fewer resources available to everyone else using the system.

In reality, shared hosting is perfect for the great majority of websites and you should only begin to consider a dedicated server if your site needs very specialised software, your site is incredibly busy or security issues become a concern.

About The Email Accounts

The Email accounts provided under shared hosting have a 50MB mailbox size limit and a 10MB message size limit. This is rarely a problem as the accounts can only use the POP3 protocol. Usually, when you pick up your mail, the message is deleted from the server meaning that your mailbox will more often be empty.

None of this applies to managed or dedicated servers where mailboxes can be configured to any specification using any protocol.

More About SSL

The shared hosting accounts can easily be configured to use a dedicated SSL certificate, however the charge is £250 pa. There is little difference between shared SSL (included on the account) and a dedicated certificate apart from the URL used to access your site. With a dedicated certificate, the URL would be similar to https://www.mywebsite.com/ whereas shared SSL URL's will normally take the form of https://some-secure-server.com/secure/myusername/.