Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting packages are full of features that will allow clients to run their sites efficiently and affordably from their control panel.
All packages include an auto-install scripts feature for super-fast set-up of Joomla, Magento, WordPress and other software, which could all be up and running literally within minutes of ordering!
Shared hosting packages are ideal for:
- clients with one or a few sites, with several email addresses.
- Small businesses
- Personal websites, blogs or small shops
If larger package specifications are required please see our shared hosting datasheet. All shared hosting accounts use powerful servers on our reliable UK network. All contain the following features:
Shared hosting feature list
Spam & Virus scanning |
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All email accounts are protected from spam and virus infected emails spam software on the servers.
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Webmail - Email anywhere! |
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You can access your email anywhere, by going to yourdomain.co.uk/webmail. There are three different webmail systems to choose from, Horde, RoundCube and Squirrelmail.
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Easy iPhone/Blackberry setup. |
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Our email accounts are easy to setup on your iPhone or any other smart phone.
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IMAP access |
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IMAP is a method of accessing email which stores all emails, folders and settings on the server instead of downloading to your own computer. This is often used by clients moving around various computers for using email.
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POP3 Access |
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POP3 is the most popular method of accessing email which downloads all emails and manages them on your computer using software such as Microsoft Outlook.
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Out of Office / Auto-responders |
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Auto responders can be setup to send a custom response email automatically whenever an email is received to a certain address.
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Forwarders / Aliases |
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Forwarders can be setup to send all emails arriving at any email address on our server to a completely different address either hosted by us or not. For example, if you prefer using your ISP email account but have your own domain/website, you can forward any email arriving at your website domain to your ISP email address.
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SMTP server |
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SMTP is used to send email via your hosting account. Despite some providers not permiting SMTP usage it is something we provide along with SMTP authentication.
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Script auto installer |
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Our script auto installer is provided with all accounts which can be used to install many popular third party scripts with just a few mouse clicks.
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PHP 5 |
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PHP is a hugely popular web programming language and is available on all of our servers.
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MySQL 4 databases |
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MySQL is a database server installed on all servers.
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Perl 5 |
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Perl is another web programming language which is available on all servers.
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phpMyAdmin |
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phpMyAdmin is a third party application used to administrate MySQL databases. This is available on all accounts with no installation or configuration.
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Ruby on Rails |
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Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework used by web developers for rapid development. Ruby applications can be installed from cPanel.
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.htaccess support |
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We provide full htaccess support which allows clients to utilise mod_rewrite rules, custom redirects and many other features controlled using htaccess files.
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AWStats and Webalizer |
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These are popular third party applications to monitor vists to all websites and produce daily reports and charts to represent all statistics.
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Protect directories |
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Password protection can be applied to directories within your account using our control panel.
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RAID storage |
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RAID is a technology using multiple physical hard drives to store data which act redundantly and can continue working to capacity even if one drive should fail.
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Subdomains |
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Subdomains are additional domains based on the main hosted domain, eg subd.maindomain.co.uk. Many use subdomains to host separate elements of the same website such as a community forum, shopping cart, etc.
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Parked domains |
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A parked domain is a separate domain name that is mapped to the main account domain and therefore shows the same website files when accessed. These are often used when different extensions of the same domain are in use, eg domain.com, domain.co.uk, etc.
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Multi layered backups |
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Your data is of critical importance to us so we ensure that it is always backed up in our backup schedule. Not only do we provide access to backup features in the control panel we also backup all data to a separate hard drive daily and carry out data backups to our off server, high capacity storage system.
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Cron tasks |
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Cron tasks are used to automatically run commands or execute scripts on a scheduled basis, eg once per day, once per month, etc.
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Raw log manager |
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Website access logs can be used in third party software to generate statistics. We provide access to all raw logs via our control panel.
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Spam & Virus scanning