Domain registration

What is a domain name?
A domain name is a unique address on the Internet, which holds information/services.
One easy way to imagine it is to think of it as an address on the Internet.
Your domain is normally held or hosted on a server which is permanently connected to the internet, rather than your PC at home.

What will a domain name give me?
A domain name will provides you/your business with many options.
It can give you one or many personalised email addresses, a web site, web based applications/databases plus many more options.

Email Services
We can support IMAP, POP3 and web-based mail accounts.
Each email account will have a specific login and we will supply all the details for you to connect to your email via your normal email software.

SMTP servers
This protocol is used to transfer e-mail between computers. It is a mail server to mail server protocol.
Client to mail server protocols such as IMAP and POP3 are used to access e-mail messages.
If you have a domain, we can supply you an SMTP server which matches your domain, i.e mail.yourcompany.co.uk

Web-based Email Accounts
This is a service that allows you to send and receive e-mail via a Web interface. One ,major advantage of this approach is that you can read your email anywhere, all you need is a internet connected machine.

E-Mail Forwarding
If you are require a specific email address to be diverted to another, you can setup someone@yourname.co.uk to automatically forward to someone@hotmail.com

Web Hosting
This allows you you to upload and store your website's documents and related files on a Web server.

e-commerce
e-commerce often refers to purchases from online stores on the Web, otherwise knows as e-commerce Web sites.
Few have referred to it as Web-commerce. E-commerce can be business to business (B to B) or business to consumer (B to C)

SSL certificates
Secure Sockets Layer, SSL, is the standard technology for creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser.
This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browser remains private.
SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites for the protection of their online transactions.
In order to be able to generate an SSL link, a web server requires an SSL Certificate

Control Panel

If you want to run your website and services yourselves, we supply a web-based control panel to give you control over your services.

Multiple Domain Hosting
Want more that one domain ? Not a problem, we can support multiple domains per customer.

Web Pages
We can support 'normal' html, PHP based pages i.e for dynamically generated sites, Server Side Includes as well as FrontPage Extensions
Our servers are installed with the latest FrontPage Extensions, which enables you to design and publish your site from Microsoft's FrontPage. (installation on request only)

Databases
Whether you just need one for a specific application or multiple, we can arrange it. We offer a choice of two databases :
MySQL
Today MySQL is the most popular open source database server in the world with more than 4 million installations powering websites, datawarehouses, business applications, logging systems and more. Customers such as Yahoo! Finance, MP3.com, Motorola, NASA, Silicon Graphics, and Texas Instruments use the MySQL server in mission-critical applications

PostgreSQL
Another populer database server.

Data Centre Information
99.9& Uptime guarantee !
Server Specifications
- Intel Celeron 1.7Ghz Processor
- 1GB RAM
- 120GB Hard Drive (2x60GB)
- Red Hat Linux 7.3
- Apache 1.3.x

DATA CENTRE FEATURES:

GigE Connectivity to multiple Tier 1 transient backbone providers including: EPIK , Cogent, Sprint, Level 3 and UUNET
Redundant Power Feeds
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems
Backup Diesel Generator Power
24 x 7 Monitored Security
Environmental-control Units
Fire-suppression Systems
Technology Service Centre: 24 x 7 x 365 system administrators on-site to monitor and maintain the data centre infrastructure and client equipment.

SERVER ENVIRONMENTS:

Precision-controlled air conditioning systems protect and cool mission-critical servers and equipment in the Network Operations Centre. The facility is controlled by Yorkâ„¢ quad-compressor/dual-blower redundant systems.
These systems provide a virtually dust-free and particle-free computing environment, with temperature, humidity, and air-quality regulation


We do not offer pre-defined 'bundles' as each customer has different requirements and we believe you should only pay for what they are going to use !