What is included?

What are your server specifications?

Of our three hosting packages, the Bronze is recommended for personal or hobby sites, the Silver is ideal for large hobby sites and small business sites whilst the Gold is suitable for maintaining a large and complex presence; for example, a community or nationwide campaign site.

Included with all packages:

Powerful but easy to use control panel - click to see a demonstration

Web Builder software to make designing professional websites easy - click to see a demonstration

All packages also come with an array of FREE web tools to help you manage, design and implement your website, these include:

• Software worth over £300 including Link Evaluator, Site Submitter, Traffic Wizard, Password Manager and 12 other popular titles.
• 50 Premium Website Templates
• 400 Basic Website Templates
• 100 new professional Website Templates
• 16 Macromedia Flash based Website Templates
• Over 100 company logos
• 50 Flash Banners
• 100 Advert Banner Templates
• Thousands of Clipart Images
• Over 22,000 Photos
• Over 75,000 Web Art Images

The Hats Off Internet Website Builder is a fully featured Website-building tool designed to let anyone create professional, multi-page Websites. It features vibrant, professional designs and pre-built templates to speed your website development. It is both easy and powerful.

There are plenty of pre-designed templates to choose from and it is completely free to use with your account. Some hosting companies limit the number of pages you can publish - not us! You can create as many pages as you like and update them as often as you like.

Servers: Technical Specifications

We use only Dell servers in our web hosting platform. Utilising state-of-the-art technology we have built a web hosting platform that is second to none Our platform is designed in such a way that if any server fails another server automatically and without delay takes over that server's workload. For example, if one of our mail servers breaks down another server automatically comes online, with all the correct configuration, and takes over the work of the failed server. During this period no email is lost. As well as this, all data is stored in two large network disk arrays. Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime.

Our current server specification is:

• Dual Quad Core Intel® Xeon® 3.16GHz with 2X6MB Cache
• 8 GB RAM
• Dual 136 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system)
• RAID Mirroring (for the operating system)
• Dual Power Supplies
• Dual Gigabit Network Adapters

Our systems utilise the latest Redhat server technology to allow our servers to be continually up to date with Redhat system & security patches. Unlike many of our competitors we run Redhat Enterprise Linux, the most stable release of Redhat Linux available and the only version that keeps completely up to date with security patches.

We operate a multi-homed network utilising BGP4 technology. Simply put, we have multiple connections to the Internet with different backbone providers, should any connection fail our other connections automatically take all the traffic. Not only does this mean that we are very unlikely to lose connectivity to the Internet, but it also means that traffic moving to and from our network can choose from a range of paths to get to its final destination. This means that we have been able to configure the network always to take the fastest paths.