Hosting is when a commercial service provider rents you some web space in which to place your site and provides you with other services such as 'e-mail' and technical support to enable you and your site to function 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
There is no point in having a great web site if nobody can see it or visit it because a fault has arisen on the host server and your site address is unobtainable. Imagine having your phone system with an unreliable provider who could only provide you with a working service every other day!
You will be paying for a service - and service is what you get! We do not, ourselves,operate our own servers - we believe in horses for courses. We therefore place our client sites with a commercial provider, but we only use hosts who are members of the Guild of Web Hosts and who feature in the web's official 'Top 10' web host rankings. As there are more than 6,000 web hosts, achieving consistent Top 10 ranking is a fantastic achievement and an excellent endorsement of reliability and customer service. From this Top 10 we will source the best host for your site based on our own experiences; the experiences of other site owners; the range of services offered; the best value for money and the type of additional services your site requires. The best choice for those who want a full e-commerce, trading site may be different from those requiring a cost-effective solution for a small, static, informational site.
Our quoted fees include the cost of basic hosting, with e-mail, on an exceptionally reliable commercial host server. If you should need additional services, such as cgi-bins; SSL etc. we will provide you with a further quotation for these additional costs. Please see our Additional Pricing page.
Certainly. If you, or a friend, has had a good experience with a particular host provider we would be delighted to talk this through with you and agree with you any changes to fees and charges by taking this option.