Web hosting

Once your website has been completed it will need to be stored on a high spec computer, known as a server, that is connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. This is so that your visitors can access the site to download your pages for viewing.

Using a free web hosting service?

There are thousands of free hosting services available and for many small companies, they feel that using the free webspace provided by their ISP is a safe option. In reality, these servers can be slow or unreliable or be plastered with banners or other advertising. If the server is slow to respond and the pages take too long to download, your potential clients will think nothing of hitting their back button and moving on to the next website, after all, it is only two clicks away. The other problem with using free webspace is that the address of the website is likely to be something similar to http://www.freewebspace.com/your-isp/yourcompanyname.html. Hardly professional or easy to remember and not favoured by search engines.

Finding a reliable web hosting provider is essential to your success

Having a web site that is slow and prone to going down is a sure way of losing customers and upsetting your client base. Your choice of host can also influence your chances of being indexed by the search engines. If your website is off-line, or takes too long to respond when a search engine spider comes to visit you, then quite simply put, you'll be missed. As our priority is getting your business in the top rankings of the search engines, we only use top quality systems and components. Your new website will be hosted on Sun Cobalt XTR servers with 2GB ECC Ram and RAID1 Storage ensuring your website is fast and responsive.

Costs:

Web hosting is available to existing web design or SEO clients for an annual fee of £99 for 25MB or £149 for 50MB. New hosting accounts cost £149. 5GB data transfer per month, which is more than enough for several thousand visitors per week for most websites.

Bespoke web design example

Victoria's Health and Beauty

Beauty Salon based in Bristol established in 2000. We have provided the Beauty Salon with a large website that advertises beauty treatments offered and a shopping cart system that offers clients beauty products and gift vouchers. Features include a mailing list and a salon photo tour.

Victoria's Health and Beauty - Approximately 400 pages