What is Hosting Space?

Hosting space is required for your web site to be connected to the Internet. By paying for commercial quality web hosting you are ensuring that your web site will be available to your potential customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When buying hosting space you are essentially paying for some disk space on a powerful computer which is permanently connected to the Internet via a fast connection, you are also paying for the administration which ensures that the web server remains connected and up-to-date. All hosting space is not the same, different providers allow different amounts of space, provide different speed connections, restrict the potential of your web site by limiting scripts etc etc.

What do I get by hosting through Infotex?

Your site is hosted on a powerful, reliable and secure Linux server capable of in excess of 10,000,000 web page views and 250,000 emails per day.

To ensure that you always get a rapid response the servers are connected to a Gigabit network which is in turn connected to 2 independent 100 Megabyte UK Internet connections from leading providers such as Claranet and Easynet. This ensures that there will never be a bottleneck. The servers are hosted in a data centre which has been rated at 100% availability.

In addition to the fast Internet connections, you need to be sure that the servers are safe and will remain online. To this end the data centre is located in the UK, and has 24 Hour CCTV monitoring and access to authorised personnel only via proximity access cards backed up by verified photographic identity matching.

The data centre also has state of the art fire detection and gas suppression. Additionally air conditioning ensures that the data centre is always at the optimum temperature and humidity for the our servers to operate in.

In addition to this the data centre has generators and Uninterruptible Power Supplies so that even if the mains power supply should fail then your site will not be affected and the entire data centre could operate without further external power for days. As a final guarantee of data security all data is backed up on a weekly basis.

Now you can see why all hosting accounts are not the same, and why you are in safe hands hosting your web site with Infotex (UK) Limited.