BF Internet - Established 1996

Fully managed business web hosting

We offer a range of business-grade fully managed web hosting packages to suit all sizes of web presence, leaving you to focus on your business whilst we look after your servers.

All hosting packages are located on our dedicated servers housed in a Telecity data centre in the UK, providing a physically secure environment with high speed network access. All packages 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.

Standard features included with all fully managed accounts:

• Comprehensive and resilient backup routine
  To ensure the safety of your data, all accounts are backed up locally daily, and weekly to a secondary server. These backups are replicated to a remote location.
• Fast, reliable, business-grade hardware
  We exclusively use Dell business-grade hardware on a 5-year life cycle, often with extended warranties and 4-hour on-site hardware support. Our servers and network feature the highest levels of hardware redundancy with multiple remote management interfaces.
• Enterprise server software
  Honed over 16 years of web server management, our servers run on an enterprise-level Linux operating system, with the industry-standard Apache & MySQL packages, protected by a remote resource monitoring suite and our bespoke in-house management scripts.
• Remote monitoring
  Our infrastructure is monitored from around the world to make sure our network, servers, DNS and email are fully online. We use the same monitoring services as Dell, Google, Twitter and Amazon. Alerts are sent instantly to 3 locations via SMS and if required technicians are available 24/7/365, both remotely and on-site.
• DDoS protection
  Protecting your business from DDoS attacks to avoid costly and often lengthy periods of downtime.
• Commercial-class datacentre
  Our servers are housed in Telecity data centre in the UK featuring:
  • N+1 UPS architecture
    Backed by diesel generators to ensure constant power availability.
  • Dual diverse commercial fibre network feeds
    This means that in the unlikely event of a network fault, we can quickly switch to a second provider to maintain availability of our services.
  • Temperature-controlled server cabinets
    Optimal environmental conditions to maximise server performance.
  • Security
    24 hour on-site security personnel, stringent access management, unique-key cabinets and CCTV monitoring.
  • Smoke and fire protection
    Advanced VESDA™ gas deployment fire system.
• MySQL databases
  All our standard, premium, dedicated and bespoke hosting packages include as many MySQL databases as your website software requires.
• 1,000 POP3 email accounts
  More email accounts than you'll ever need! All our email accounts are protected by anti-spam & anti-virus services.
• Free domain name
  All standard, premium, dedicated and bespoke hosting packages included one free .co.uk or .com domain name.
• No multi-year contract
  Purchased annually, all of our basic, standard and premium shared hosting accounts are exempt from multi-year minimum contracts.
• UK telephone support
  We provide office-hours telephone support with a direct line to our team in Cumbria.

Hosting upgrades available

Wordpress maintenance - £49/year+ 20% VAT

Wordpress is a fantastic CMS package, but it's vital to maintain it with the latest patches so that any vulnerability is removed quickly. A compromised Wordpress is a risk to the entire server and all websites on it, so to ensure the security of your website and those of others we may insist on this service for your Wordpress installation.

Private remote backups - £99/year+ 20% VAT

Whilst our backup procedures ensure server data is backed up both locally & remotely each night, you may wish for backups to be sent to your own private location. For this we sync a copy of your website databases & files to your own Amazon S3 storage account each night.

Security scans - £139/year+ 20% VAT

Quarterly security scans can be arranged to test the security of both your website software and the server it is hosted on. The test checks your services against an expert-maintained database of known vulnerabilities, with over 250 new classes of vulnerability added each year.

Security scans are provided by our partner Netcraft, a highly reputable independent security agency. Netcraft are a source of security data for both Microsoft and the BBC. Monthly & weekly scans are available on request.

Software maintenance for PCI compliance - £79/year+ 20% VAT

New threats from online fraud arise constantly. Your bank may request that you maintain your ecommerce software in line with the ever-evolving PCI compliance guidelines and SecurityMetrics tests. This package keeps your website in line with the security requirements and avoids the bank's £480/yr non-compliance penalty.

SSL certificates - From £149/year+ 20% VAT

We offer a range of SSL certificates to enable secure encrypted transmission of data to & from your website and the browser. Certificates are available from GeoTrust and VeriSign, both with and without extended validation features.

Bespoke features - £POA

Bespoke hosting features are available on request - server software packages, additional backups, additional hardware redundancy, dual-location hosting, bandwidth etc. - our packages are very flexible and can be tailored to suit your business needs.

Service level agreements - POA

Service level agreements (SLA's) can be arranged by request, including agreed levels of uptime, support response times and extended technical support hours. Contact us to discuss your requirements.