Hosting - Service Details

Disk space on our Internet servers in which to place your web site files and store your emails.

Receive email sent to any address at your domain name(s). Mail to any address can be sent either to a POP3 mailbox on our server or forwarded to an existing email address elsewhere.

You can transfer your existing domain name to your account or we will register a domain for you and transfer it. See domain name page for more information

You can control your site, set up and delete email boxes etc from an online control panel. Easy and Instant!

FrontPage server extensions are installed on demand on our web servers. This allows you to take advantage of the dynamic features and publication wizard in Microsoft's web page authoring software.

CGI scripts are small programs that run on the server to add interactivity to your site, your account is equipped with its own CGI directory, allowing you to install and develop your own CGI scripts. We support cgi scripts written in Perl and precompiled C.

Server Side Includes enable the addition of dynamic elements to your HTML web pages. Automatically insert dates, file information and other HTML documents.

View real-time usage statistics for your web site, see how many people are visiting your site, where they come from, what search keywords they use to find you and more.

Round the clock unlimited access to your account to upload files and make changes to your pages.

Computer viruses distributed through the email system can cause untold harm to users unfortunate enough to receive them. Our mail servers scan your emails for known viruses alerting you to the danger before damage is done. Please note you should continue to use anti-virus software and not reply on this service.

Unsolicited commercial email commonly referred to as SPAM is the Internet equivalent of junk mail. Our mail servers consult with a world wide database of known spammers and will refuse email sent from them. This reduces the amount of junk mail in your inbox increasing your productivity.
Please note that not all SPAM wll be captured - but every little helps!

A wealth of information, instructions and tutorials are available at any time from the online support centre. Context sensitive help is available at any time from within the control panel

Your sites are hosted on powerful servers housed in the data centre.

Internet connectivity to your site is provided by multiple, diversely routed optical fibre connections ensuring fast and dependable performance.

If you should run into difficulty with your account, telephone technical support is available. We also offer a comprehensive online support centre and email technical support

Autoresponders reply to incoming email instantly and automatically. You can set and change the text of the reply and the trigger address whenever you like. Autoresponders are ideal for customer service or informing people when you are away.

A multi recipient address enables a single email message to be delivered to multiple recipients in your organisation. MRAs are ideal for distributing staff bulletins and memos quickly and efficiently.

Restrict access to certain areas of your web site, configure as many usernames and passwords as required. Applications include sites where membership is required to view certain content or the creation of an extranet.

Replace the standard uninformative error responses of your virtual server with a customised page of your choice. Encourages surfers to stay on your site when an error occurs.

PHP is a powerful server side scripting language ideal for the creation of dynamic data driven web sites. The latest release, version 4 is installed on our servers.

CGI scripts are small programs that run on the server to add interactivity to your site, your account is equipped with its own CGI directory, allowing you to install and develop your own CGI scripts. We support cgi scripts written in Perl and precompiled C.

Each time your site is accessed data is transferred across the Internet. This is measured in MB.

Our transfer limits are high, less than 1% of our customers exceed them. Data transfer can be monitored in real-time via your control panel, should you exceed your limit, simply pay a small surcharge of £15 per 1000MB.

mySQL is a powerful database engine designed to provide fast access to stored data. Data from your database can be accessed via ODBC compliant software any of the supported scripting languages. You can administer your mySQL database using the control panel.

Serve information to people on the move via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled devices.

Store and handle sensitive data such as credit card information in an encrypted state. Encrypt email such that only you can read it.