Domain & Website Hosting

We believe that website hosting is more than just providing web space and FTP access. Our aim is to provide individuals and businesses with everything they need to express themselves on the internet, be that through an idea or selling goods and services. We provide domain and webite hosting from the Home Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire) through to London and service Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Watford, St. Albans, Tring, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Chesham, Amersham, Barnet, Harpenden, Dunstable, Hatfield and Luton in particular. Please call us on 01442 251-514 to discuss your requirements.

6 Reasons to choose KCS Total Solutions for your web hosting

	1. Quality hosting: Our purpose built website hosting infrastructure is unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability.
	2. Excellent customer service: Our support database provides the answers to the majority of website hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
	3. Value for money: Because all of our hosting technology has been developed by us in-house we don’t have any expensive licensing fees to pass on to our customers. That means we can offer you more for less!
	4. We put you in control: We believe in developing highly automated systems giving customers complete control of their website hosting. Our website hosting control panel is one of the most advanced available today.
	5. You can grow with us: Our website hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their first website through to SME’s demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution.
	6. Constant Monitoring and Security Upgrades: We take our customer’s security very seriously and all software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released.

Our Hosting Technology

	Platform We only use Dell servers in our website hosting platform. Our platform is designed to be highly redundant and all data is stored in network disk arrays. Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime. Each array is also backed up each night to a separate backup cluster which is then written to tape and stored offsite.
	Data centre We utilise uninterruptable power supplies and an n+1 generator setup to ensure constant and clean energy to our infrastructure. The data centre is protected by fire suppression, monitored by CCTV both externally and internally, has 24x7x365 onsite security and the building is surrounded by an 8ft perimeter fence.
	Security We are automatically informed of new security patches via our vendor. Patches are applied within 24 hours. Our own platform is scanned each month for application vulnerabilities and we use a network scanner to identify weaknesses in our network.

Managing your website

Our control panel is one of the world’s most advanced website hosting control panels currently available. Here is a quick summary of the great features available to our website hosting customers...

	iPhone control panel Customers can also manage their websites and hosting accounts on the move with our exclusive iPhone control panel which has all the same functionality of the standard control panel. This is free for all our web hosting customers.

We give you more!

We want our hosting customer’s websites to be a success and with this in mind we also provide our hosting customers with one of the biggest CGI script libraries in the UK including one click install WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, BuddyPress, OpenX & Drupal.

- And much more!

	WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It's easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes.
	BuddyPress is a suite of WordPressMU social networking plugins and themes to empower you to create your own social network.
	Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
	phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB3 has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.
	Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users easily to publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
	OpenX is a hugely popular advert server designed for website publishers. It gives you the tools you need to make the most from online advertising. With Openads you will be able to manage sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the advertising on your websites.

Website Hosting Terminology

New to website hosting? Here are some of the most common terms used...

Bandwidth

A term used by web hosts to describe how much data can pass from the server your website is hosted on to people visiting your website. This includes the files that make up your website as well as any data downloaded from databases or media files.

ccTLD

A country code top level domain name. These domain names are associated with a country or geographic location e.g. .co.uk (UK), .fr (France and .cn (China). The ability to register these domain names from another country depends on the registrar’s rules. For example, co.uk has no restrictions whereas .it (Italy) demands you are based in Europe.

Domain Name System

The system that maps domain names to the corresponding machine’s IP addresses. This system is essentially a phone book that translates human friendly names into computer friendly numbers. Because this information is stored across multiple computers any updates to a domain (including registration and ownership details) can take up to 48 hours to work its way across all of them.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Once you are ready to see what your website looks like online, uploading the files to your web space is really easy and is often as simple as clicking, dragging and dropping. The method you will use to get your website online is called File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Don’t be put off by the name, all this does is take the files from your computer and put them on to the web host’s server for people to access. Simple!

In order to do this your web host may offer an upload function though your account with them, but that means you have to log in every time. A quicker alternative that most people use is FTP software. Some HTML editors come with this built in (e.g. Dreamweaver & Microsoft Expression Web) but even if yours doesn’t there is the industry standard stand alone (which is free) to download called FileZilla.

HTML

HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is the first layer of a web page and deals with the content (the text, any lists, tables, quotes...).

LAMP

LAMP is an acronym used to describe a set of open source software used by many people and businesses to save money and to prevent platform lock-in.

Linux: Operating system
Apache: Web server
MySQL: Database
PHP: Program

MySQL

MySQL (owned and developed by Sun Microsystems) is the world's most popular open source database. It is also part of the open source software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Sub-Domain

Sub-domain names are domains that are part of the parent domain name. They are free to set up and can be useful if you have areas of your site you want to categorise e.g.
dictionary.domain.com, thesaurus.domain.com.

TLD

Top Level Domain Names have no association with any countries and were amongst the first to be created. E.g. .com, .net, .org.

Web Space

The amount of space allocated to your website by a website host to store all your files and data. The more web space you have the more information you can store.

What We can Help you with

• Manage your domain names
• Manage all your website hosting accounts
• Log in to your webmail
• View the system status updates
• View your Webalizer analytics statistics
• One click install CGI scripts such as WordPress
• View your invoices
• Backup & restore your website
• Conduct a WHOIS search for a domain name
• Set up scheduled tasks

...and much more!

Packed full of features

• Easy to use file manager
• File backup & restore
• Webmail and POP3/IMAP
• Web stats & logs
• Google SiteMap generator
• MySQL and phpMyAdmin
• Schedules tasks
• Full Ecommerce software
• One click install scripts including WordPress
• Check your account performance at a glance
• Download log files

Control Panel Home Page

Once you log in you will be presented with your web hosting control panel home page. From here you can access all the various tools and features to manage your website.

You can also quickly access details about your account (e.g. hosting package name, server type, and your FTP details) and how much of your account’s allowance you have used (web space, bandwidth, Email accounts etc).

Files

We provide you with full access to upload and download your website’s files with our easy to use file manager.
To ensure you never lose any of your work, backing up and restoring your website is all done in just a few clicks with the files stored on your local machine.

Email

We offer one of the most powerful and flexible WebMail systems, features include your own address book, search features, customisable interface and scheduling.

You can also set up new mail boxes and delete any that you no longer need all in just a few clicks. In keeping with our ethos of giving you control you can decide how aggressive you want your junk filter to be and which email addresses it applies to on a box by box case or choose all emails attached to a domain name. You can also add specific addresses to your white list and to your black list.

Web Stats and Logs

Check the performance and data usage of your website with our extensive analysis tools.

We have also automated the creation of a Google Site Map for your website to increase the likelihood of being found by their spiders. So you don’t have to manually submit your site multiple times you can submit to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc) from here with just a couple of clicks.

Web Tools

The ‘Web Tools’ area provides you with access to a raft of great features for those with a bit more technical knowledge than the average user.

MySQL Databases: From this area you can also manage your database by using phpMyAdmin, an easy to use web based interface for managing MySQL databases

Password Protection: Website Password Protection allows you to password protect a directory on your website. Only people who have the password will be able to access the area.

Scheduled Tasks: Scheduled tasks allows you to enable programs to run automatically on the server at specific intervals.

Sub domains: Have a new web address for separate areas of your website e.g. news.bbc.co.uk

IP Address blocking: IP blocking allows you to block certain IP addresses or ranges from accessing your website. For example, you may wish to prevent a competitor from viewing your site or a known threat.

Switch PHP Version: Switch to PHP5 with just one click

Website Help & Diagnostics

Make sure your website is performing at optimal levels with our free diagnostic tools.

Ecommerce

Your website hosting is fully ecommerce enabled and comes packed with advanced ecommerce features and scripts.

You can provied your customer with a secure online shopping experience by using our free secure server (SSL) which allows you to accept data securely via your website. Choose from a collection of the most advanced ecommerce solutions availabled including Zen Shopping Cat, osCommerce, Shopping Cart, CubeCart and Agora Shopping Cart.

CGI Scripts

Our customers can choose to install as many scripts as they want from one of the UKs most compressive list of one click install scripts.

WordPress, BuddyPress, Joomla, phpBB, Drupal, OpenAds and much more are all available in just a matter of clicks.

Other Features

Our control panel is one of the world’s most advanced website hosting control panels, here is a quick summary of the other great features available...

• Other Hosting Features£300 free software
• 50 premium website templates
• 500 extra website templates
• 22,500 images
• Tracewatch
• Website redirection
• FrontPage extensions
• Banner templates
• Photo gallery
• Form to Email
• JavaScript maker