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Dedicated Windows and Linux Web Hosting and Maintenance Support

At Pixel8 Web Design in Manchester, we don't just design and build websites but also carry out all our clients web hosting and support requirements. From beginning to end we can organise the purchasing of your domain names, transfer in existing domain names, set up email accounts, re-directs and update DNS records and host your website on the server of your choice with full backup and technical support.

Shared Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web Hosting and Support

Our bottom-line solution is a shared Microsoft Windows 2008 web server solution. The server is technically a dedicated server solution with multiple websites hosted on a single machine. This means that we have been able to install a multitude of software solutions including mySQL server, PHP5, Python, Perl, AWStats web server statistics (as an addition to Google Analytics), MailEnable email server with hosted WebMail and a backup solution.

Your website will be hosted on a web server along with other websites, but due to the nature of Microsoft IIS7, each one is seen as a separate entity, so if one of the websites on the web server crashes, it does not affect any of the other websites which are on the same web server.

Dedicated Microsoft Windows Web Server Running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and IIS7

If you require a more secure solution, we are able to offer true dedicated server solutions running Microsoft Server 2008 with IIS7. This comes in handy when you require a bespoke web hosting solution, with your own back-office integration, more hard disk space for large product databases and your own "personal" web server which you exclusively have access to. It also comes in handy when you require a solution with no other websites stealing your bandwidth, such as if you host videos you need all of the available connection so that your users don't experience any loss in speed.

Dedicated Linux Web Hosting and Server Support

Many people view Linux as a more secure hosting environment - if this is the case, we also offer dedicated Linux web hosting and support. Due to this being a dedicated bespoke solution, we are able to offer any server side scripting language which you require, including PHP5, Perl or Python with mySQL server hosted database solution. We also can install any other server software such as the WebMin web hosting control panel solution, email server and dedicated FTP / SFTP accounts.

Quite a lot of clients choose this web hosting solution over a Windows Server 2008 server solution if they are to be having a website with a content management solution written in PHP5 with a mySQL database, such as Drupal or the Magento e-commerce solution. This is because we can offer a higher level of support for these types of websites hosted on a Linux machine, as they are more compatible with the Apache 2 web server which we install on the Linux server machines.

Transfer the Hosting of an Existing Website (for example, so we can carry out SEO work on your website)

Using our DNS control panel, we are able to take you through every step of the web hosting process. If you already have a domain name, we can set up all the necessary email accounts, web server space, databases or anything else you need before we transfer your website to our server. You can check on the progress of your transfer at any time using a sub domain name which we can arrange for you. Once you are happy for your website to be transferred we get in touch with the necessary people to transfer the domain name over to us and update the Domain Name Servers (DNS) to make your site live.

Domain Name Purchasing and Web Hosting

If you do not already have a website and require us to take care of everything for you, during our initial consultation we will suggest a selection of suitable domain names for you which take your company name, your industry and SEO into consideration and can then purchase the domain name for you on your behalf. There is no limit on the number of domain names which you can have, so if you require more it's not a problem for us to host all your domain names and have them pointing to the same website. Domain names and the first years web hosting charges are usually within the initial web design and development cost.

Dedicated Server Specification

Our dedicated and shared solutions all come with the following hardware specification (at time of writing subject to change):

• Dual-Core 2.2 Ghz Processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 160 GB SATA (7,200RPM) Hard Drive
• Unmetered Bandwidth
• 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee

Windows Dedicated Server Specification:

The integration of Windows Web Server 2008 64-bit, with Internet Information Services 7.0 ( IIS 7.0), ASP.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework enabling any organisation to rapidly deploy web pages, web sites, web applications, and web services.

• Microsoft Windows Web Server 2008 64-bit
• .NET Framework 3.5
• IIS 7 Web Server
• Microsoft FTP server
• Windows Software Firewall
• PHP 5
• mySQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Python
• Perl
• Website Usage Statistics
• Email server with unlimited POP mail boxes
• Backup and restore software
• Anti virus Software

Linux Dedicated Server Specification

The hardware specification of the dedicated Linux web server is the same as our Windows server hardware with the following software specification:

• Ubuntu Linux Server Edition
• PHP 5
• mySQL Database Server
• Python
• Perl
• FTP Server
• Email server with unlimited POP mail boxes