W.T.G. Web Hosting

We believe that web hosting is more than just providing web space and FTP access. Our aim is to provide individuals and businesses with everything they need to express themselves on the internet, be that through an idea or selling goods and services. Whatever you want to create a website for, be it a small family photo album or a full powered data base driven ecommerce website, your choice of web host is essential. The right web host will make the difference between a slow clunky site that has regular down time and a site that is always available and blisteringly fast!

Please contact sales@webtechglobal.co.uk to discuss a tailored packaged perfect for your needs or view a list of free PDF guides that go into great detail about the services we provide.

6 reasons to choose us for your web hosting

1. Quality Website hosting

Our purpose built web hosting infrastructure is unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability.

2. Experianced customer service

Our support database provides the answers to the majority of web hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are on hand to answer any questions you may have.

3. Value for money

Because all of our hosting technology has been developed by us in-house we don’t have any expensive licensing fees to pass on to our customers. That means we can offer you more for less!

4. Your in control

We believe in developing highly automated systems giving customers complete control of their web hosting. Our web hosting control panel is one of the most advanced available today.

5. You can grow with us

Our web hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their first website through to SME’s demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution.

6. Regular Site Monitoring plus Security Upgrades

We take our customer’s security very seriously and all software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released.

Reliable Hosting Technology

Dell Server Platform

We only use Dell servers in our web hosting platform. Our 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.

Managing your website

Our control panel is one of the world’s most advanced web hosting control panels currently available. To read a summary of the great features available to our web hosting customers please click here.

iPhone control panel

Customers can also manage their websites and hosting accounts on the move with our exclusive iPhone control panel which has all the same functionality of the standard control panel. This is free for all our web hosting customers.

• Manage your domain names
• Manage all your web hosting accounts
• Log in to your webmail
• View the system status updates
• View your Webalizer analytics statistics
• One click install CGI scripts such as WordPress
• View your invoices
• Backup & restore your website
• Conduct a WHOIS search for a domain name
• Set up scheduled tasks
• …and much more!

We give you more!

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

WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It’s easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. WebTechGlobal specialise in WordPress and use it as a CMS.

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPressMU social networking plugins and themes to empower you to create your own social network.

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Openads is a hugely popular advert server designed for web publishers. It gives you the tools you need to make the most from online advertising. With Openads you will be able to manage sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the advertising on your websites.

& much more!

Website Builder

Our Website Builder is a fully featured Website-building tool designed to let anyone create professional, multi-page Websites. It is both easy and powerful. Some hosting companies limit the number of pages you can publish – not us! You can create as many pages as you like and update them as often as you like.

Simple to use

Your website can be up and running in 5 easy steps…

1. Select your lay out and colour scheme

2. Enter your details and information for the search engines

3. Choose the topic of the page e.g. home page, about us, contact us etc.

4. Add your content

5. Click ‘Publish’!

Packed full of great features

Website Builder guides you step-by-step, providing simple choices regarding colour, style and images. There is no software to buy, and no code to learn. In addition, there is no need to use programs such as FTP or Telnet.

	Content and Design Separation The content of the website is stored separately from the layout. This way, you can completely change the look and feel of your website in six clicks of the mouse, without ever having to retype any information.
	Complete Control over Colour Schemes Website Builder includes a number of built-in colour combinations that look great with any layout. But if a user wants to add a little originality to their site, all the colours can be changed, either by using a point-and-click colour picker, or, for even more control, typing in the colour as a hex number.
	On-The-Fly Image Generation Website Builder dynamically generates the images it needs for each website design, so each time you decide to change the colour combination for a page, the layout, or just a button caption, the necessary image is automatically created. You need not ever bother with complex and expensive programs such as Photoshop to create Websites with clean and professional-looking graphics: our designers have already done it for you!
	Variety of Pages Website Builder can be used to make many different pages. You can create an online CV, or build a personal photo album. Everything is done in a simple step-by-step process that is easy to learn and to follow.
	One-Click Publishing Your website is published with one easy click. But even after publishing, you can go back and change it as much as you wish. Clicking the publish button again will instantly reflect all the changes on the “live” version of your site.
	Autosave All your information is saved the moment it is entered. If you decide to log out, you can come back and continue building your website from the very point from where you left off.

Over 200 templates to choose from!

There are plenty of pre-designed templates to choose from and it is completely free to use with your account. Some examples include…

It features vibrant, professional designs and pre-built templates to speed your website development. Get your website online today!

Web hosting terminology

New to web hosting? 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 website is hosted on to people visiting your web site. This includes the files that make up your website 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 website 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 website 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 host’s server for people to access. Simple!

In order to do this your web host 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 site 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 website by a web host to store all your files and data. The more web space you have the more information you can store.

Please contact sales@webtechglobal.co.uk to discuss a tailored packaged perfect for your needs.