Help with your hosting options
Web Hosting is a service provided by hosting companies that who store your information (Web pages) and post it on the World Wide Web, allowing it to be accessed by users on the Internet.
Hosting does not require the installation of any software pieces on your desktop computer. Instead, all your software applications, and files are located on a computer, known as a server, which is maintained by your host provider at a cost.
This server is known as a web server. Unfortunately, owning and operating a Web server can be very costly and requires technical expertise and infrastructure that most businesses don’t have. This is why web hosting companies like UKFast (web hosts) exist.
As a web host we don’t just supply the equipment and infrastructure, but also the expert technical engineers to provide you with a website on the Internet, and ensure that it runs efficiently.
Essentially you transfer the responsibility for maintaining the background services of your website to those who know best, leaving you free to focus on what you know best, your business.
As an award winning hosting provider we can help you choose the right hosting package for your business. We offer a variety of web hosting solutions, including:
- Shared hosting
- Shared hosting is the cheaper of the web hosting options. It’s where multiple sites are hosted on a single server, so each account ends up "sharing" server space with other users.
- Shared hosting is only really suitable for low traffic sites as you get limited disk space and bandwidth, much less than you would with your own dedicated server. It also tends to be inflexible restricts the level of interactivity of the Website and increase risk due to other users being on the same server. Shared hosting is the least expensive and most common hosting option whilst still offering a professional look to your website.
- Find out more about our shared hosting packages
- Reseller Hosting
- Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner may split up their allotted hard drive space and bandwidth and resell web hosting. You remain in complete control by setting the amount of space and bandwidth each sub-account receives. The number of sub-accounts you can create depends solely on your purchased reseller plan, some offer fixed amounts others offer unlimited hosting.
- Some reseller hosting packages are provided as private labelling, enabling you to resell web hosting with all traces of your web host company completely removed, so your customers will never know they exist.
- Reseller hosting is ideally suited to webmasters/developers, allowing you to host and manage all your websites under one account for one price rather than having to pay your hosting provider for multiple shared hosting accounts. You can offer it as a value added feature to your existing business or as a separate entity.
- Find out more about our reseller hosting hosting package - ResellerPlus
- Dedicated Hosting
- Dedicated hosting involves you renting an entire server from a web host, you do not share the server with anybody else. Your hosting provider still takes care of supporting your server (hardware, operating system, backup facilities etc) whilst you retain full control and ownership over its software applications and content, giving you exclusive use and command over your website's server.
- Dedicated hosting is suited to websites that generate high traffic volumes. Unfortunately higher start up and maintenance costs are involved, but users benefit from greater uptime, increased security and scalability.
- Find out more about our dedicated hosting servers
- Managed Hosting
- Managed hosting involves you renting a dedicated server as you do with dedicated hosting, but the web host takes full responsibility for the maintenance, monitoring and backup of your server.
- This is the most expensive hosting option but also the most headache free. It is most suited to companies who do not have the technical know-how to carry out these services themselves and leave such services in the hands of the professionals or for those who need to deploy their IT staff into other areas of the business.
- Find out more about our managed hosting server solutions
