Web Hosting in United Kingdom
The United Kingdom hosting market is really huge. Incredible amounts of new websites are created every day. Majority of them need cheap web hosting. Also businesses and people need other hosting services such as domain names, SSL certificates, extra care support etc.
What are the main Great Britain hosting advantages? Few to mention:
- The price and quality match. UK hosting companies can offer a very flexible price for a quality service.
- Variety of hosting services. Usually the hosting companies are vast range service providers. They provide free web hosting, shared web hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated server hosting. Additionally some bigger hosting companies offer UK cloud hosting solutions.
- Fully automated management. UK hosting is used not only by native UK located businesses, but also by various international companies, which desire to host their projects in UK. In order to serve all different needs of international customer, the fully automatic systems of service order and maintaining is well developed.
- IP management. Lots of online projects should have British IP address to be visible to Google.co.uk search engine. Multiple IP management is one of the main features of any hosting service plan.
- Professional support in English. This feature is also important not only for locals, but also for international customers as information in English can be understood by the majority of system administrators, who are actually ordering the services themselves.
UK hosting market is big and Host1Plus is a part of this business with the office in London with management department. Technical support departments are located in Lithuania and Germany making Host1Plus just another international hosting company operating in UK.
U.K. Data Center Overview
The hosting services are provided by hundreds of companies which offer the technical services rather than operating the data center. Data center is a facility where server hardware is kept and maintained. The hardware require specific physical conditions (low temperature, cooling, uninterruptedly electricity supply, double source broadband internet connection etc.), therefore data centers are done sometimes separately from the actual hosting services. The hosting companies cooperate with more than 70 data centers across the United Kingdom.
The majority of data centers are located in London as well as North East and South East regions of the Great Britain. These regions has the bigger infrastructure because of businesses located nearby.
Host1Plus has teamed up with one of the London based data centers to provide its shared web hosting services to UK and international customers. The reliable data center guarantees the reliable and quality service.
London is considered the capital of European data centers. According to approximate calculations, London data centers occupy the territory of 300,000 square meters. This number should increase to 400,000 by the end of 2015. This will grant London the biggest database title in Europe.
Despite of constant growth London’s data centers face some serious problems as facilities are getting more and more expensive. Also there some issues with needed power supply. Experts predict that together with London’s data center growth, other regions will be growing as well, especially in South and South East which are in not so distant cities from the capital of United Kingdom.
Host1Plus Service Guarantees
Host1Plus provides shared hosting services in the UK. VPS hosting is provided using US based servers. Free hosting is done from Germany located datacenters.
UK shared hosting means that other websites are hosted together in the same server hardware. This hosting services is cheap and quality one because it is run in a reliable data center which is located in London. Host1Plus guarantee 99.9% up-time (the time server is working properly without any problems or disruptions).
Host1Plus English speaking customer support (technical support department is located in Eastern Europe) will be delighted to help UK customers with any questions regarding Host1Plus hosting services.
90 days money back guarantee is also one of the biggest Host1Plus advantages. If customer decides changing the hosting provider, Host1Plus will return all money paid for the shared web hosting services (it does not apply to the domain name or SSL certificate purchase).
Host1Plus provides a high quality automated services for UK customers. They are mainly small and medium size businesses and private persons with own online projects. Therefore the pricing of shared hosting is flexible and affordable.
U.K. Web Hosting Features
UK web hosting is a shared web hosting. The main features include:
- Flexible control panel which allows easily control the applications, domains, billing etc. The control panel is easy to use and intuitive, therefore even beginning user can handle all the website hosting issues easily by himself.
- Website builder tool will allow easily building the starting website just after the ordering the hosting service. Website design can be chosen from more than 70 different design templates. No HTML knowledge is needed.
- Email tools which allow easily managing the email is one of the most important features of UK web hosting. Customer can manage webmail and POP/IMAP email, add and delete unlimited amount of accounts (depends on the server disk space which can be chosen). Email have on-server spam protection SpamAssassin.
- FTP account and special FTP management software allows users easily create different FTP access to different users, manage the security issues.
- Application installer allow easily install and set the applications. Applications are grouped by the type – blogs, e-Commerce, CMS, forums, social networks etc. Application installer automatically sets all the needed database settings and PHP, so user do not need to have extensive knowledge about these professional hosting issues.
- Easy management of domains, sub-domains and DNS. Also IP address management for international projects.
- Website backup is one of most needed features. The website information must be backed up before any serious improvements to the site in order to keep the main information safe with the possibility to restore it any time.
More features are available for Host1Plus UK web hosting. They can be observed in the control panel of the hosting service.
