Website hosting – a solution for every website

Every website needs hosting. A website host is simply a computer, or server, on which your website pages and data reside. A web server manages the information relating to your website – the web pages, graphics, forms, data, emails and so on. Every time someone uses the internet and views your website your web server passes the information to the users web browser.

It goes to say that a good, reliable web server is key to ensuring that your website displays correctly, quickly and every time someone wants to view it without fail. There are many companies that provide web hosting services with a wide variety of services and prices.

Website hosting

At Flair4 Design we have worked with a number of web hosting companies over the years so we know a little about what makes a good web host. We can work with your own web host if you already have one or if you want us to provide your website hosting we can do that too.

Each website requires a different level of hosting depending on your business needs. We provide two levels of hosting depending on your requirements;

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting provides you with a lower cost solution for your website hosting and emails. Shared hosting means that your website is hosted on a web server with a number of other websites. Your website shares the resources of the web server with the other websites also hosted on the server.

Shared hosting meets the needs of websites with less visitor traffic and less technical requirements. For most websites shared hosting will meet your needs. Our chosen shared hosting provider is a company that we have worked with for many years, one of the largest in the UK that has been established for 10 years. This also allows us to provide our customers with very competitive pricing when choosing a shared hosting package.

Our shared hosting provider uses the latest technology with the reassurance of a secure data centre to give the peace of mind of a monitored secure environment.

Our own Managed Server

We also have our own managed server with one of the world’s most respected and reliable hosting company’s, Rackspace. A managed server gives us complete control over which websites reside on the web server. Only Flair4 Design websites run on our managed server, so your website will not be contending with a number of unknown websites. This gives us control over the resources on the server meaning that we constantly monitor the web server to ensure that any websites hosted on it are running at optimum speed and reliability.

Hosting your website on our managed server gives you the peace of mind that your website data is protected by regular, reliable backups that can be restored if required within a very short space of time. Rackspace’s unrivalled support gives you additional reassurance and backup when you need it most.

Our managed server is available to our customers who require more from their hosting – more bandwidth, security, reliability, speed and if you need to run specific functionality on your website such as an application or email service.

What’s more, every managed server with Rackspace partakes in their Greenspace initiative;

“Rackspace became one of the UK's first hosting companies to offer carbon neutral hosting through tree planting in October 2006 when it partnered with the ITF, the world's longest standing tree planting charity. So far Rackspace is planting between 300-400 trees a month and has already filled up two sites in Pembrokeshire, Wales with nearly 2,000 trees and we are now rapidly filling up a new site in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. In turn this project enables Rackspace customers to lower their own carbon footprint through tree planting, which mitigates the carbon generated through the servers.”

How do I know what sort of hosting I need?

We will advise you on what sort of hosting package is suitable for your website early on in your website project. Factors such as potential visitor traffic, security, database requirements and of course budget will all be discussed with you, to help you make an informed choice.

If you need to ask us any questions about our hosting services please click here to contact us and ask us anything, or call 0800 083 2120 to speak with us.