CWCS Managed Hosting provides first class hosting to customers worldwide, from small to medium sized companies to household names. All services are hosted in our high specification UK data centres. We offer a wide range of services which include web hosting, virtual dedicated servers, dedicated servers, server colocation, load balancing, mirroring and complex hosting.

All our services are backed with friendly and knowledgeable 24/7 technical support by telephone and email.

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Dedicated Servers

CWCS are leading providers of web hosting UK services. With so many companies offering web hosting UK deals, it can be difficult deciding who can deliver what you need, so here is our guide to our web hosting services.

Under a Managed Hosting, or dedicated server hosting deal, CWCS becomes the systems administrator for your dedicated server.

As a top web hosting UK company, our dedicated servers are defined as the exclusive rental of a computer including a web server, related software, and Internet connection, located on-site, within our premises. Usually, for sites which develop considerable traffic, a dedicated server is needed and most cases, dedicated servers can be configured and operated remotely by us.

Dedicated servers are a single computer on our web hosting UK network, leased or rented, and dedicated to just one customer. As your service provider, we will monitor the computer's hardware, network connectivity, and routing equipment, while the customer generally controls and maintains the server software. Our Dedicated servers are usually used for web sites which have outgrown the basic standard web hosting account. Larger companies who need separate systems for mail, web, and database servers also use dedicated servers. At CWCS, we have our sites spread over several dedicated servers. Our dedicated servers are kept inside data centres, where we can fully monitor them at all times.

Internet business owners generally outsource dedicated servers, due to their technical nature, which is where CWCS come in. Dedicated server providers use great amounts of bandwidth, and can obtain lower volume costs, including multi-providers. Generally, the cost of developing a single network is not feasible for many web hosting companies but CWCS can cover all your web hosting needs.

So many things are involved in running a dedicated server successfully: website reporting and monitoring; load balancing; security; storage and backup; ensuring the applications are running well; ensuring the network is performing at its best. If any of these aspects needs 'tuning up', you really count on CWCS as your web hosting company for comprehensive services.

Bear in mind that, in some cases, a dedicated server can reduce overheads and offer a greater return on investment. Although dedicated servers are most often housed in data centres similar to colocation facilities, the dedicated server hardware is owned by us, your Managed Hosting providers and we provide support for your operating system and applications.

One way to decide which type of CWCS web hosting to go for is to consider a few basic questions.

Is your website your main source of revenue, and are your Internet applications critical? Do you need highly responsive 24/7 support, and guaranteed uptime?

Do your current resources from your existing web hosting plan give you enough support on all hardware, software, and network functionalities? Does the web hosting you use allow you to focus on business issues and keep your dedicated servers running? Can you afford to hire, train, and retain staff to maintain your web presence under your current web hosting deal?

Managed Hosting

If you answered 'yes' to the first two questions, and 'no' to the last three - CWCS Managed Hosting may be the ideal web hosting set-up for you. Under Managed Hosting, we will assume the role of systems administrator for your dedicated server and keep your site functional.

With Managed Hosting, CWCS monitor and maintain all of the infrastructure issues integral in web hosting. Under our Managed Hosting deal, we procure, configure, install and maintain the necessary dedicated servers, firewalls, and other devices, including the operating system and any backend database and supplies dedicated server support to keep the site functional.

Once configured, under Managed Hosting, we connect the dedicated server to the web via its own network, and monitor the dedicated servers round the clock. Essentially, Managed Hosting means we maintain your infrastructure: if a hard drive fails, CWCS replaces it; if a dedicated server dies, Managed Hosting means that we swap it; if there’s a spike in traffic, under Managed Hosting the bandwidth is automatically increased.

We would be more than happy to discuss our Managed Hosting services to help find exactly the right support for your web hosting requirements.

Benefits Of Managed Hosting

Compared to handling infrastructure demands in-house, CWCS Managed Hosting allows you to take full advantage of our Managed Hosting processes and our experience to implement solutions more quickly and cheaply, and with higher reliability than other web hosting methods. Colocation and dedicated web hosting plans only provide the physical space, power, and network connections for customer equipment. Anything extra means an extra cost - which can become prohibitive if you need to reconfigure your dedicated servers frequently, or add multiple applications. While many dedicated and co-located web hosting deals claim to offer additional services, these are usually provided by a third party, cost more and can interrupt performance. These deals cannot offer the reliability and adaptability that CWCS Managed Hosting does.

It is true that there are many web hosting UK service providers. However they certainly don't all offer the same high levels of service as CWCS. An advantage of opting for a web hosting UK service such as ours is that you will be billed in sterling.  Our web hosting UK support team are in the same country and time zone as you and can always be contacted.

There are various advantages to going for a web hosting UK service. If you are located in Great Britain, you may find it more convenient to be billed in sterling. Also by choosing a web hosting UK provider, you can deliver to your visitors with the best response times in the UK. The UK's outstanding connectivity also makes it a good starting point for serving most European countries, and is another good reason for going for a web hosting UK provider.

In particular, our web hosting organisation prides itself on our reliability, the strength of our round-the clock support, and the great value of our web hosting services. But don’t just take our word for it. One independent reviewer of web hosting UK providers rated us as the top UK provider of Managed Hosting.

CWCS Managed Hosting

Take our dedicated servers. You’ll struggle to find better from any other web hosting UK provider. A CWCS Managed Hosting dedicated server has power and flexibility. You will have your own account manager to help as an invaluable addition to your web hosting team. Our web hosting UK provider’s dedicated servers are set up the same day as you make your request, and there is flexible pricing on bandwidth.

Dedicated servers from us, your web hosting UK provider, also includes unlimited data transfer and guaranteed 99.99% uptime. All dedicated server plans are backed up with 24/7 fast supreme technical support by email, web-based ticket system and telephone. Customer service and support are second to none.

Unlike some web hosting UK providers, at CWCS Managed Hosting, we understand the features we provide. Our multi-skilled technical support team has a passion for dedicated servers and web applications, which makes a real difference on support issues.

Under the deal for your dedicated server with CWCS Managed Hosting, additional IP addresses cost £30 per year, and as your web hosting UK provider, we also offer weekly and daily backups for our Linux and Windows dedicated servers.

A free hardware upgrade every year helps to keep dedicated servers up to date.

You should consider using CWCS Managed Hosting for your web hosting if your site has outgrown its existing web hosting UK provider, and if you are after flexible, secure web hosting with the ability to install custom applications. CWCS Managed Hosting could also be your ideal web hosting UK provider if your website is 'mission-critical', and you need control over your web hosting environment.

CWCS Managed Hosting's dedicated servers and network provide Managed Hosting to businesses, and have been doing since 1997. We ensure high availability and performance for all your web site and dedicated server needs.

With such high levels of expertise and experience, it’s no wonder that we, a leading web hosting UK provider, come top of the list, time after time.