Website Hosting

The Need For Speed

Hosting is pretty much the same everywhere right? Well, this is not the case at all. There is a huge difference in hosting packages available, and the old cliché of “you get what you pay for” couldn’t apply more.

One of the biggest differentiators is speed.

There are several factors that affect the speed of your website – from a hosting point of view they include:

• Speed of the server’s processor
• Access to the website files from the storage media
• Whether the servers are optimised for your website platform
• Speed of the internet connection from the data centre.
• How close to the data centre the visitor is (the further away, the longer the delay)

We offer speed enhancements to each and every one of those potential bottlenecks. We host your websites on our load balanced, cloud infrastructure, which is consistently fast and robust, meaning there is no single point of failure.

All of the servers use 100% Samsung SSD storage which is blazingly fast when compared to hard drives. The different platforms, WordPress, Linus and Windows, are all optimised to give the best performance possible. The network connected to the UK data centres is a whopping 40 Gbit/s, with multiple connections.

Last of all, for our professional and premium plans, we include our global CDN – meaning your website files are stored on servers all over the world and served from the data centre nearest to your visitor.

The key features of hosting

When deciding on hosting for your websites, there are four key features you should look for.

• Security
• Support
• Speed
• Scalability

Let’s take a look at why these are so important.

Security – There are people who spend all day, every day, hacking websites, stealing data and making websites work for them instead of for you. We have built into our hosting packages many different security protection techniques, including: FTP Security Lock – your file access is locked as standard until you want to work on the site. DDoS Protection – to stop hackers bringing down servers with hundreds of thousands of website requests every second. Brute force login protection – preventing hackers from using computers to “guess” your username and password. And much more to keep your websites safe.

Support – We are here when you need us. We have ticket, email and telephone support (depending on package), and a team of UK experts to answer your questions and keep your internet services running smoothly.

Speed – We have already discussed.

Scalability – Both for the size of your website, and for your visitors. Our premium package offers unlimited webspace and bandwidth, which means that your website will always be available for genuine visitors, even if it goes viral and you start getting tens of thousands of visitors a day.

Choose your hosting carefully, as it will affect how many visitors you will get, and it will definitely affect sales.