What is Website Hosting?
Website hosting is the business of providing the connectivity, storage and services necessary to serve files for a website.
Website hosting offers the ability to host your website on a managed server at a low monthly cost. When you purchase a website hosting package, you are sharing a server with many other websites.
How to choose the best hosting package?
Each website hosting package has a certain amount of space and data transfer, which will affect how many files you can upload to your website as well as how many people can look at or download those files each month.
Our recommendation for those starting out with their first website is to try our Micro Website package. It has many features of the Master package ( but does not have a database); the difference is that the data transfer, email and storage quotas are less than the Master.
This way you can try out most of the features and figure out which ones you need and don't need, and start to develop your website straight away, giving you an idea of how much data transfer and storage space you'll need in the end.
You can then upgrade or downgrade accordingly, at any time.
What happens when your allocated data transfer and space is exhausted ?
You are charged a fee based on the excess data transfer or space used. You may manage your space effectively to minimise costs. You may also need to upgrade your account.
What Security of Information do I have ?
When using the internet, there is always the risk of somebody accessing your information. Even before hosting your website and customised email accounts, you were at risk. Not withstanding this fact, software is put in place at our servers to reduce spam, adware and viruses. However, the ever changing nature of the internet results in ever present danger and risk to all who use it. To minimise some of this risk you are advised to have the latest anti virus installed on you computer. You need to continuously update anti virus software installed on all your computers and servers. Further you must contract with a reliable service provider to regularly monitor and maintain your computer systems. You must ensure that the automatic upgrade of your operating system is set on "on" this will ensure that your computer systems are always armed with the latest software updates. Always use genuine software which means that you can receive these upgrades from the vendor concerned. The "firewall" in your computer's operating system must be activated. Another way of protecting your information is to have all your outgoing mail encrypted. Be careful when sending your bank account details and ID numbers. Do not open emails that have been sent by somebody you do not know, It could be from a computer Hacker! Keep your email client programme ( browser ) updated. Do not accept third parties installing software on your browser unless you are absolutely sure of their origin and trust the vendor. Strictly maintain and guard the administrator rights to your computer, this will prevent anyone downloading or installing spyware or adware or any problematic software on your computer. For further free advice send an email to support Currently - Windows Internet Explorer version 7 and below have major flaws that expose you to risk. Upgrade to Internet Explorer version 8 or use another browser such as Opera or Firefox.
Do you support cPanel Hosting?
cPanel is not available on our web hosting packages. Should you wish to make use of the cPanel control panel, we would advise you to acquire a TruServ™ Dedicated server with Alliance IT & Business Solutions cc.
Do you support Linux hosting?
All our web hosting packages run on Debian Linux. Its reliability and cost has made it a popular choice as the basis for computer networks and is commonly used as the operating basis for Internet servers.