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Hosting Services

Unusual hosting requirements? Just ask us — we are not a one-size-fits-all hosting provider and can cater for diverse needs.

Web Hosting Services

For Plone hosting details, see our CMS page.

We use the same services that we provide to our customers on a daily basis, which is good incentive to keep them operating at their peak:

• we are easy to contact in the event of emergencies and have an excellent record of rapid response for urgent issues
• we monitor performance closely and will patch, upgrade or provision new servers to ensure the smooth running of your websites and applications
• our hosting servers are in high quality commercial data centres with redundant Internet connections and excellent support response times

We support:

• static websites
• PHP web applications
• Java web applications
• LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) applications
• we specialise in the Plone Content Management System
• domain name management
• digital certificate management
• SFTP and SSH access is available on request
• Awstats website statistics are available (on request)
• Google Analytics and other plugins such as this can be set up
• web-based MySQL management (on request)

Mail Services

Most non-trivial web applications require email support. We provide mailboxes and redirects with our hosting plans. A web-based console for managing your email setup is also avaiable as a standard feature.

• IMAP mailboxes
• mail redirection (also called aliases or forwarders)
• web-based mail access is also available
• web-based mailbox/alias administration
• all mail undergoes highly effective spam andvirus filtering

Our Servers

• we currently run Linux servers in two separate commercial data centres
• our hosting servers use mirrored (RAID-1) disks for added data security
• for customers subscribing to our remote backup services, critical data is backed up each day to a another server in a remote data centre
• servers are kept up-to-date and patched
• our main systems administrator was previously a principal engineer for the world's biggest IT security company - we treat our security very seriously

Software that we run

The software that we run on our servers includes:

• Apache web server 2.2.x
• MySQL database server 5.0.x
• PHP 4
• PHP 5
• Java 6 / Jetty / JBoss
• Plone 3.0.x, 3.1.x & 3.3.x
• phpmyadmin
• Postfix mail server
• Postadmin mail admin web interface
• Squirrelmail
• Spamassassin
• a variety of add-ons for Plone including our own Identity Management and Online Shopping packages
• all reasonable requests considered