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Website Hosting

“Cheap” Website hosting – is it worth it?

There are often advertisements in computer magazines for “cheap website
hosting” and we are occasionally asked by clients why we are unable to match
some of the ‘deals’ that seem to be on offer. Our simple answer would be that
it is not a ‘like-for-like’ comparison but for your convenience we have set out
below the main differences between Technicweb’s website hosting and the lowcost
alternatives: -

1. All our servers are exclusive to Technicweb (none are shared with any other
web design companies)
2. All our servers are Dual-processor machines with Raid-5 striped SCSI hard
drives which means they are very fast
3. All servers have 4-6gb of memory each
4. Fast (Tier 1) network utilizing multiple bandwidth providers such as MCI,
Sprint, Tiscali, Abovenet and LINX.
5. Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0 and .net 2.0
6. CISCO Firewall – prevents unauthorised access to ports and reduces chance
of denial of service attack. Also allows blocking of any IP address to prevent
harvesters.
7. Low contention ratio (number of sites per server)
8. No 3rd party access permitted (more secure)
9. 24/7 monitoring for 365 days a year
10.Greater than 99.9% up time
11.Full SQL 2005 database infrastructure (not MySql)
12.Separate Web, Data and Media servers
13.Monitored infrastructure – we monitor when the time is right to upgrade
servers and do so at no extra charge to our clients.
14.Google Analytics Website statistics as standard
15.Unthrottled bandwidth – when demand is high, bandwidth expands to
accommodate, instead of data transfer slowing down
16.Daily backups with 4 week retention period (both file system and database)
17.Automated Microsoft security patches