Our key benefits:
- Hosting on optimized high end web servers.
- Contention ratio (number of websites per server) maximum of 100:1
- Hosting on dedicated Windows or UNIX platforms.
- Scripting supported under PHP, ASP and SQL-Lite
- Microsoft SQL option available
- Technical support from real humans who understand the problems via a local call rate number or email, whichever you prefer.
For the past decade the majority of web hosting in ISPs has been done via shared web servers. These are servers that are owned, managed and run by the ISP themselves, onto which they put many hundreds, sometimes thousands of individual web sites. This has worked for two main reasons, firstly the majority of websites themselves, until recently, have been simple HTML affairs with very little customized coding or scripting. These types of sites, generally, take very little space on a server and use very little of the processor capacity but that has started to change. Secondly, these servers are managed by the ISP so there is very little experience and time required in terms of server management from the customer side.
In the past few years some websites have become more complicated, often requiring separate databases, security for e-commerce and customized scripting. Customers have increasingly found that shared servers are just too restrictive and consequently no longer a viable option. Therefore they are opting for their own dedicated co-located servers. The downside to this option however is cost to implement your own server (Hardware, software licenses), as well as the cost of co-locating a server at a dedicated center and the cost associated with the on-going management and running of the server, which often requires a dedicated member of staff.
Which is the right option for my website?
That is very much down to each individual and their requirements. If you are in any doubt speak to one of our team, let them know your requirements and we will try and advice you the right way forward.