Web hosting leeds

Web hosting Leeds

We believe that web hosting Leeds is more than just providing web space and FTP access. Whatever you want to create a web for, be it a small family photo album or a full powered data base driven ecommerce web, your choice of web hosting is essential. The right web hosting in Leeds will make the difference between a slow clunky site that has regular down time and a site that is always available and blisteringly fast!.

6 reasons to choose your web hosting in Leeds

• Quality web hosting Leeds: Purpose built web hosting infrastructure, unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability.
• Excellent customer service: Support database providing the answers to web hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
• Value for money: We can offer you more web hosting for less in Leeds!
• Your in control: Highly automated systems giving you complete control of your web hosting in Leeds via our web hosting control panel.
• Grow with us: Our Leeds web hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their first web through to SME’s demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution.
• Constant Monitoring and Security Upgrades: We take our customer’s security very seriously and all software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released.

 

Leeds web hosting technology

Platform

• Our Leeds web hosting platform uses Dell servers. The platform is designed to be highly redundant and all data is stored in network disk arrays. Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime. Each array is also backed up each night to a separate backup cluster which is then written to tape and stored offsite.

Data centre

• We utilise uninterruptable power supplies and an n+1 generator setup to ensure constant and clean energy to our infrastructure. The data centre is protected by fire suppression, monitored by CCTV both externally and internally, has 24x7x365 onsite security and the building is surrounded by an 8ft perimeter fence.

Security

• We are automatically informed of new security patches via our vendor. Patches are applied within 24 hours. Our own platform is scanned each month for application vulnerabilities and we use a network scanner to identify weaknesses in our network.

 

We give you more!

We want our Leeds web hosting customer’s web sites to be a success and with this in mind we also provide our web hosting customers with one of the biggest CGI script libraries in the UK including one click install WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, BuddyPress, OpenX & Drupal.

 

Leeds web hosting terminology

New to web hosting Leeds? Here are some of the most common terms used...

Bandwidth

A term used by web hosts to describe how much data can pass from the server your web is hosted on to people visiting your web. This includes the files that make up your web as well as any data downloaded from databases or media files.

ccTLD

A country code top level domain name. These domain names are associated with a country or geographic location e.g. .co.uk (UK), .fr (France and .cn (China). The ability to register these domain names from another country depends on the registrar’s rules. For example, co.uk has no restrictions whereas .it (Italy) demands you are based in Europe.

Domain Name System

The system that maps domain names to the corresponding machine’s IP addresses. This system is
essentially a phone book that translates human friendly names into computer friendly numbers. Because
this information is stored across multiple computers any updates to a domain (including registration and
ownership details) can take up to 48 hours to work its way across all of them.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Once you are ready to see what your web looks like online, uploading the files to your web space is
really easy and is often as simple as clicking, dragging and dropping. The method you will use to get your web online is called File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Don’t be put off by the name, all this does is take the files from your computer and put them on to the web hosting leeds server for people to access. Simple!
In order to do this your web hosting may offer an upload function though your account with them, but that means you have to log in every time. A quicker alternative that most people use is FTP software. Some HTML editors come with this built in (e.g. Dreamweaver & Microsoft Expression Web) but even if yours doesn’t there is the industry standard stand alone (which is free) to download called FileZilla.

HTML

HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is the first layer of a web page and deals with the content (the text, any lists, tables, quotes...).

LAMP

LAMP is an acronym used to describe a set of open source software used by many people and businesses to save money and to prevent platform lock-in.
- Linux: Operating system
- Apache: Web server
- MySQL: Database
- PHP: Program

MySQL

MySQL (owned and developed by Sun Microsystems) is the world’s most popular open source database.
It is also part of the open source software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Sub-Domain
Sub-domain names are domains that are part of the parent domain name. They are free to set up and
can be useful if you have areas of your web you want to categorise e.g.
dictionary.domain.com, thesaurus.domain.com.

TLD

Top Level Domain Names have no association with any countries and were amongst the first to be
created. E.g. .com, .net, .org.

Web Space

The amount of space allocated to your web by web hosting leeds to store all your files and data. The more web hosting space you have the more information you can store.