A secure data centre hosts our systems.
Since 1994 we have owned and operated our own
software hosting platform. Whilst some web development companies farm out
hosting to cheap Linux based companies outside the UK and make you responsible
for managing it, we take an opposite approach. We rent server systems at a
leading UK data centre and then install our own software platforms onto them
giving us total control over every aspect of our service and guaranteeing
quality of service.
We charge an annual fee and this covers unlimited bandwidth, automatically
generated log reports, unlimited email storage, and we will even make any
changes to your site which you can't do through the Control Panel. Our
annual fee covers our Freephone Telephone Support and also ensures that we can
access your machines to offer remote PC support if required. Our hosting
package even includes unlimited SMS text messages to tell you when someone
completes an enquiry form!
Software Platform
Our network is based on Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
We fully support classic ASP, all versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework, and
we have licensed a wide range of Enterprise Quality components which can be used
on any site hosted on our network. Components include the Obout Suite,
QualityData Membership Manager, CuteEditor, AJAXUploader, Flicks Access Control,
and many more including CAPTCHA controls, third party AJAX libraries, and a host
of social media and interactive widgets.
In 2010 we added full PHP and CGI support with MySQL allowing us to host almost
every type of web application for customers moving to us from other hosting
providers.
We can also install and host any components available in the Microsoft Web Stack
as well as applications in the Microsoft Platform Installer Gallery - if you see
something you like just ask us as we can probably include it in your hosting
plan at no extra charge!