Website hosting isn’t something that your average website owner thinks about – it’s all the same right? Well no actually…

Let’s look at some of the important factors in choosing hosting for your website:

Reliability.

No brainer really – in order for your website to make you money it needs to be online, a web hosting service that has constant outages means that when visitors come to your site they get… nothing. They will move on to other products / services from your competitors!

Speed.

Often overlooked as a factor in choosing website hosting, speed is becoming a major concern for online businesses… Google has already started to factor website speed into it’s ranking algorithms – this means that if you own a slow website it could get a penalty from Google or your competitors (with faster websites) could get a boost above you in the search results. It is also a FACT that just over 75% of online users would leave a site and go elsewhere rather than suffer delays. (data from www.website-speed.co.uk)

Email.

Email can be the life blood of many online businesses, all our hosting packages come with the ability to check, reply and forward your emails from multiple locations. This is called IMAP email and allows you to use your emails in the office, at home or from your email enabled smartphone / tablet at the same time. Once your devices are setup you can receive an email on your phone, reply to it and then continue the conversation when you get back to your office or your home. All emails are stored securely on our servers so you can access them 24/7 from anywhere.

Cost

One of the major challenges businesses face in these hard economic times is keeping costs down, we understand this and although our hosting services are “business class” in terms of features and reliability we try and keep the costs down to a minimum for clients. We do not overload our servers to make a profit, instead we charge what we consider a fair rate for high quality hosting.

NEW! Introducing 16 core servers with SSD technology!

Total Web Development are always looking for the very best hosting platforms to keep our clients websites ahead of the game, whilst the majority of hosting providers are still using dual or quad core processors – out latest UK servers are running oct core processors, that’s right 8 cores! And to make them even quicker at processing complex database queries and handling website content our latest servers utilise 2 processors – yes that’s 16 cores in total!

And the story doesn’t end with the 16 cores of processing power, oh no – our servers run super fast RAID 10 hard disks PLUS ultra fast SSD caching disks to dramatically increase server speed.

We also keep our servers well below maximum capacity – as you can imagine the capacity of these new monster servers is very high but we keep them below 50% capacity to make sure that all websites can utilise the power and performance of the server.

Here’s the low down on the specs of these epic servers:

• 2 x Intel e5-2690 8 core processors (16 cores in total)
• 8GB of DDR3 EEC RAM.
• Enterprise Class SSD caching drives (not normal desktop SSD drives)
• Multiple hard drives running in RAID 10 configuration.
• Gigabit network link.
• Located in London (UK).
• cPanel hosting control panel.
• Cisco hardware firewalls.
• Intrusion Prevention Systems – monitor web traffic for signs of hacking and block it.
• 64bit operating system.
• 99.9% network up time guarantee.

Pricing

Let’s not pretend, hosting your website on these super-fast 16 core servers is going to cost more than ‘traditional’ shared web hosting, these servers are very expensive and we need to recoup the cost of this. But we have to be realistic – pricing is a very important factor so we have kept the price as low as we possibly can…

Got a question or want to order? Just contact us…

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