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Website hosting - UK web and data hosting

Website hosting

UK web and data hosting

Web hosting: related services and packages

What is web hosting?

To make the site accessible anywhere in the world, it is necessary to hire space on a computer (a server) which has a permanent connection to the internet. This is called hosting. Hosting is also needed to provide a location for your computer to go when you type in a domain name.

What do you offer in your hosting package?

All hosting packages are located on our dedicated servers housed in Telecity data centre in the UK. This provides a physically secure environment with high speed network access. They all benefit from full 24/7 server monitoring and advanced UPS management. To ensure the safety of your data, all accounts are backed up locally daily, and weekly to a secondary server.

Our backbone provider includes full LINX peering, redundancy and massive throughput. Many web-hosting services stuff all their virtual-servers down a 256k line. Not us! You can be assured your web pages will be delivered to your visitors at top speed.

What is e-mail forwarding?

With a domain name and hosting, it is possible to forward any e-mail sent to an address at your domain, such as 'info@yourcompanyname.co.uk', to an existing e-mail account. This means that instead of customers having to remember a long and unprofessional-looking e-mail address, such as 'a.person@username.freeserviceprovider.co.uk', they can just remember your domain name. The fact that e-mail is forwarded automatically also means that you have the freedom to change your ISP as often as you wish without having to worry about changing your e-mail addresses on printed media and so forth. All we need to know is the real e-mail address where the mail is to be forwarded.

What is a domain name?

A domain name is the address that you type into your browser's address or location bar when you wish to visit a particular site. For example, our domain name is 'www.bfinternet.co.uk'.

A domain name is very important for every commercial/organisation web site. Internet addresses are complicated at best, and if you don't have a domain name, then customers will never find you. A potential customer is far more likely to remember 'www.yourcompanyname.co.uk' than 'www.freeprovider.co.uk/username/userdirectory/index.htm'. They also look far more professional.

Domain names also allow you to have professional-looking e-mail addresses, such as 'fred@yourcompanyname.co.uk', through the use of e-mail forwarding.

Web hosting packages:

Please note: To ensure the security of your website and those of others, server access (including FTP) is only available to members of the BF Internet team.

BF Small Business - Linux/Apache Server

  • Registration or transfer of domain
  • Hosting 20MB web space
  • 4GB data transfer per month
  • Unlimited email aliases/forwarding for your domain
  • 50 POP3 e-mail accounts
  • Server log analysis with the user friendly AW Stats (comprehensive information of who is visiting your site)

BF Premier Business - Linux/Apache Server

  • Registration or transfer of domain
  • Hosting 50MB web space
  • 6GB data transfer per month
  • Unlimited email aliases/forwarding
  • Unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts with a virtual POP3 server
  • MySQL database
  • Full CGI, SSI, PHP
  • Server log analysis with the user friendly AW Stats (comprehensive information of who is visiting your site)

BF Small Business - Windows Server

  • Registration or transfer of domain
  • Hosting 20MB web space
  • 4GB data transfer per month
  • Unlimited email aliases/forwarding for your domain
  • 50 POP3 e-mail accounts
  • ASP and ASP.NET

BF Premier Business - Windows Server

  • Registration or transfer of domain
  • Hosting 50MB web space
  • 6GB data transfer per month
  • Unlimited email aliases/forwarding
  • Unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts with a virtual POP3 server
  • Access database hosting
  • ASP and ASP.NET
  • Microsoft Front Page Server Extensions

All hosting packages are subject to our standard terms and conditions, which are available on request.
We reserve the right to alter the specifications of our hosting packages to maintain the highest level of reliability and service.

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If you decide you need extra bespoke features such as secure server space, we can also help you.

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