Web Sites

What is Web Site Hosting?

Although they range from simple online kiosks to highly advanced trading environments, web sites are increasingly the spaces in which businesses live and operate. However it has been put together (and naturally, we would hope that you would want to make use of our highly professional and experienced web design services), your completed web site needs to be hosted on the Internet for the world to see it.

If you have a permanent Internet connection, such as ADSL, you might wonder why you shouldn't just turn your home computer into a web server and host it yourself. This is not a good idea, for numerous reasons:

turning your computer into a web server requires technical knowledge
using your computer and reliably hosting a web site on it at the same time is unlikely to be possible
your Internet connection will easily become saturated, possibly incurring the displeasure of your Internet Service Provider
if your power supply, PC or ADSL connection fail, your web site is no longer available.

The smart approach is to use an Internet Service Provider to host your web site on one of its own web servers. As experienced professionals, they can manage all stages of the process, setting up web space to store your web pages and administration access to manage them, mapping domains, managing bandwidth and ensuring reliable access to your site at all times. Once your web site is uploaded, it's live on the Internet for all to see, leaving you to concentrate on running your business.

With large web sites, sites that have a high number of visitors or involve database components or special security requirements, or where you will be conducting e-commerce transactions online, you may need to have the web site hosted on a dedicated server on your ISP's own network. In these instances, we can offer on-site server solutions to cater for your needs.