Website Hosting FAQ

Free .UK Nominet domains 

Free .Uk Nominet domains are available on Home , Home Plus , and Standard Business plans only if paid for 12 Months in Advance.

Website Hosting Disk Space

This is the physical space to store your WebPages on your server. To give you some idea the current website your are on takes approximately 70mb. So even our smallest home package comes with 250mb of storage which is more than enough room for over 3000 WebPages

Website Hosting Data Transfer (Bandwidth)

Each hosting Package has an allocated amount of bandwidth. This means you can send or receive up to that amount of information before you incur extra charges. Midlands Productions Ltd currently charge £1.99 per GB or part there of  over your allotted allocation .

An average webpage is about 15kb in code i.e. the html and then all the images, CSS files and JavaScript files it imports, so you could add another 60k probably at lease giving a grand total of 75kb per page impression that would mean that 1000mb of band width would be equivalent to about 10,000 webpage impressions.

Website Hosting PHP Scripting

All our hosting gives access to use PHP scripts. PHP is a scripting language that is executed before a webpage os sent to the clients browser. You can use .php or .html file extensions to run your scripts. You can vist the PHP website at PHP.net.

We have created a small tutorial if your new to PHP and would like to try and use it on your hosting account. You can view it here PHP Script Tutorial and Examples. Also there are a wealth of resources onthe internet a good starting point is the W3Schools site at W3Schools

Website Hosting Perl Scripts

All our hosting accounts have access to run perl scripts.All perl scripts have to have a .pl file extension on them to run. There are litrally tousands of modules that can be intalled for PERL, we have a standard set. If your website needs a specific permodule we will look at each one on a case by case basis. Their mayalso be a charge for the time it takes to install the module.

Website Hosting Email accounts

Because all our client hosting is basd on the CPanel product all hosting clients have access to Suirell Mail and or Hord mail 2 of the defacto webemail products on the market. Also you can use standard POP3 or IMAP connections to collect your email. As we run "POP before SMTP" you can logon from anywhere as long as you knon your user name and password.

website hosting Backups

We strongly recomend you make sure you have backups of your own, also if you are new to coding its always good practice to have different versions of the files you have edited. So for example if you are updating your index.html file you woudl copy it first to somthing like index.html.yyyymmdd where yyyymmdd is todays date. This way you always can go back if somthing will not work.

The backup solution we use performes incremental backups all the time and keeps the last 2 itterations of a file. This is then copied to an automated LTO3 tape library for safe keeping.