{website & email hosting services}

{what is website & email hosting?}

What use would be placing an advert in a newspaper that would never be printed or delivered to potential customers? Hosting for a website is just like placing that advert. Once the site has been designed and content had been added you will need a service that can make your site available to the world. In the same way that a newspaper contains printed adverts, a web host stores all of the files related to your website and makes them available on the world-wide web.

When you send a parcel it is not usually delivered directly to the recipients address. Rather, the parcel will be taken to a central depot. The parcel can then be delivered by a local carrier at a time when the recipient will be available to take delivery. In a similar way, when someone sends you an email, it does get delivered directly to your computer, but is held at a central location called an email host. When you next check for new messages, your computer software (email client) will check the email host for any messages queued for delivery and then download these to your local inbox.

{what kind of hosting service do you need?}

In order for a newspaper to deliver nationwide, a reliable, well established network with plenty of capacity and resilience is required. This is also true when it comes to delivery of a parcel. If the carrier is overloaded with other people's parcels, your parcel might be delayed, misrouted or, worse still, even lost. There are similar factors to consider when choosing a good website and email hosting company.

At ibComputing, we have put a lot of investment in building a reliable solution for website and email hosting. We lease our own set of dedicated and virtual servers for hosting websites of our clients.

Our servers are located at various datacenters in the UK and Germany. We work closely with the datacentre providers to ensure that your website and email service is a reliable and resilient as possible at all times. Specialised monitoring software alerts us the moment one of our servers becomes unavailable for some reason. This means that we can often respond to a connectivity problem before the problem impacts your business in any way.

We provide a variety of hosting packages ranging from single email accounts to highly specified servers dedicated to your site alone. Most of our clients needs fall within our three main packages: Basic, Plus and Super. For a comparison of our main hosting packages and for details on costs please click here.