About Us
We setup eshophosting as we were frustrated with not being able to find a comprehensive ecommerce hosting package that comes with all the professional features we required for a reasonable price. We've been involved with website design, hosting and search engine optimisation for over 10 years and in that time have never stayed with one hosting company for more than a year (or contract period) due to poor reliability, database crashes or support so decided to setup a cost effective hosting provider aimed at companies and individuals who are looking for a fully featured reliable service at a price they can afford.
As standard with all of our packages are unlimited email forwarding, unlimited mailing lists, website builder, fully featured control panel, tons of free software including pre-installed shopping carts hundreds of website templates and all the tools you need to easily manage and monitor your site packed into some impressive bundles. The features included within our bundles are designed to provide more than adequate power to run anything from a small corporate site through to complicated CRM or ecommerce sites. If it's a quick start you're looking for we provide one click scripts so you don't have to worry about complicated installs including many of the best opensource software available such as osCommerce, Mambo, PHPBB3, SugarCRM, Drupal, Wordpress and more.
If you have any questions prior to deciding whether to sign up feel free to drop us a mail using the form here and remember we don't just host ecommerce sites!!
For everything else to do with ecommerce including live software demonstrations we will shortly be opening a new site so make sure to check out our news pages.
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100% Dell Servers
We only use Dell servers in our web hosting platform, utilising state-of-the-art technology we have built a web hosting platform that is second to none.
Our platform is designed in such a way that if any server fails another server automatically and without delay takes over that servers workload. For example if one of our mail servers were to break down, another server would automatically come online, with all the correct configuration and take over the work of the failed server, in this period no email would be lost.
As well as this, all data is stored in two large 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.
Our standard server specification:-
- Dual Quad Core Intel® Xeon® 3.16GHz with 2X6MB Cache
8 GB RAM
Dual 136 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system)
RAID Mirroring (for the operating system)
Dual Power Supplies
Dual Gigabit Network Adapters
100% Cisco Gigabit Network
Our network operates on industry leading network equipment from Cisco Systems, all our switches and routers are developed by Cisco. Our network is based on gigabit technology which means that it runs at a speed of 1000 Mb per second, most web hosting networks are limited to 100 Mb per second.
Our network also utilises 100% CAT6 network cable, CAT6 cable contains four pairs of copper wire and unlike CAT5, utilises all four pairs. CAT6 supports Gigabit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet and supports communications at more than twice the speed of CAT5e, the other popular standard for Gigabit Ethernet cabling
Redhat Enterprise Linux Platform
Redhat is the leading provider of Linux open source software, for many years now Redhat Linux has been the number one choice for web hosting companies. Not just because of Redhat's amazing scalability but also because of its track record as the most stable operating system available in the market today.
Our systems utilise the latest Redhat server technology to allow our servers to be continually up to date with Redhat system & security patches.
Unlike many of our competitors we run Redhat Enterprise Linux, the most stable release of Redhat Linux available and the only version that stays totally up to date with security patches.
Connectivity
We operate a multi-homed network utilising BGP4 technology, simply put we have multiple connections to the Internet with different backbone providers, should any connection fail our other connections automatically take all the traffic. Not only does this mean that we are very unlikely to lose connectivity to the Internet but it also means that traffic moving to and from our network can choose from a range of paths to get to it's final destination, this means that we have been able to configure the network to always take the fastest paths.
