WHAT HOSTING
DO I NEED?
About our Web Servers
Our core network is based in TeleHouse Europe
and Global Switch and operates on multiple redundant bandwidths
from several of the world's best internet backbone providers
providing uninterrupted service with maximum web site uptime.
All of our web hosting solutions include the Ensim
web-based control panel enabling you to administer email and
user settings remotely, set up auto-responders and mailing
lists and generally take control of your web space without
needing to become a technical expert in web server management.
We are using world-leading manufacturers in high performance
switching, routing, web and email systems. We offer shared
hosting on Linux and Windows 2003 (.NET) servers, dedicated
hosting on any platform you specify and terrific colocation
deals if you want your own server along with the benefits
of a high quality managed environment.
SHARED WEB HOSTING
Shared web hosting is where your web site
shares a web server with several other web sites. Modern server
technology is such that many sites can share a single machine
without loss of performance. We strictly limit however the
total number of users so as to maintain rapid performance
for your visitors. We offer web hosting on both Linux and
Windows 2003 (.NET) servers with several options on each for
different amounts of web space, varied email facilities or
applications. None of our servers are ever configured to more
than 40% of their potential capacity so your site will never
be effected by overloads, even temporary ones.
HOW MUCH WEB SPACE DO I NEED?
The amount of web space you need is divided
into two main factors, website files and email storage. The
amount of space you need for your web site is the total size
of your site files plus log files and room for growth. The
amount of storage space required for email depends on the
number of mailboxes and the amount of email traffic you expect.
We would normally recommend 20MB per user. However if you
are unsure please give us a call on 01527 571730 or email
info@hostengine.co.uk.
HOW MANY MAILBOXES DO I NEED?
The number of mailboxes required depends
on a number of factors. How many employees you have that you
wish to have access to email, will everyone have their own
account or will you have an account per department? All our
mailboxes come with unlimited addresses (also known as aliases)
which can be directed at a single or group of mailboxes.
For example if you had a sales dept and accounts
dept and the head of the sales dept was called Steve and the
head of the accounts dept was called Julie. The mailboxes
would be called sales and accounts. You could then set addresses
as sales@ enquiries@ and steve@ to go to the sales dept mailbox
and account@ accounts@ and Julie@ to go to the accounts dept
mailbox. This would keep the two dept mail separate. info@
may be a general address that you wish to go to both dept.
All these can be easily administered through the Ensim control
panel Site Administrator.
WHAT IS BANDWIDTH?
Bandwidth or Data Transfer is used by your
web site traffic and sending and receiving email. For example
if someone views a web page on your site which is 1MB in size
it will consume 1MB of your bandwidth. If 10 people view it
then 10MB of bandwidth will be consumed or if you send an
email with a 2MB attachment it will use 2MB of your bandwidth.
DO I NEED WEB STATISTICS?
Web servers create what are called log
files. These are files that sit on the web server and summarise
all the activity that takes place on that server. The Statistics
package we offer is called Urchin. Urchin gives you the means
to view how many visitors you have had to your site, the pages
they viewed and even the search engine or site they found
you from.
To View a Demo of Urchin® Click
Here
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