For many of us, colocation means hosting at the lowest possible cost, with total control over equipment.

If you looking to cut costs and maintain/improve excellent server uptime, colocation may be the ideal solution for your business.

So, what exactly is colocation?

The term colocation can sometimes sound quite frightening to new businesses searching for hosting arrangements. The thought of a managed server sounds much more appealing, although in many cases parting the extra cash for a managed server is not always necessary.

With co-location, we give your server a home and provide all necessary functions required to have your server online. We take care of your server and ensure all possible disaster eventualities are prepared for, allowing you to relax and not worry about any potential problems that could arise.

Space is available for all types of setups, from small 1U servers to a full rack full of equipment. Like a hotel, you will receive a luxury service with all expenses covered. With our dedicated support team onsite, you can request for a server to be rebooted even without leaving your office, day or night.

Different options are available for businesses interested in colocating, find all the information you need on our colocation hosting page.

Is colocation for my business?

There is certain knowledge required when colocating a server; you will need to maintain the operation and setup of the server. Businesses that have servers located in-house would always benefit from colocation, the running costs will be a lot less and the reassurance of our redundant data centre is a key advantage of choosing to colocate.

As a reputable company we own 2 data centres located in the midlands, both located in the city of Nottingham and each run independently. This gives customers the option to have servers running in separate data centres in a fail-over configuration for total resilience.

Moving servers from their current location may seem to be an unnecessary and complicated task, although you will save money in the long run. How could a power or network outage affect the day to day running of your business?

Talk to us and find out further information about what colocation is all about with our contact page.

When hosting a new website or even an existing website, one of the most important factors is the uptime your web hosting provider offers. If your website is offline due to a hardware failure, this will affect your business and would also have a major impact on your search engine rankings.
It is important to ensure a web-hosting provider has the correct setup for the hosting server to ensure downtime is always avoided. Many cheap web hosting providers may seem to offer attractive packages, it is always important to find out specifics when considering a web hosting package for your precious website.

We are proud of our new platform, we understand that not all customers have the budget to host there website on a dedicated server. That’s why we aim to offer the most resilient service web hosting could possibly offer. We have recently implemented a new platform for many of our Linux hosting packages, the benefits of the new setup can be found below, with details of how your business will benefit from it.

Resilience

Our new cluster setup has been implemented to offer the most advanced form of resilience a professional web host could possibly provide. Multiple servers are working together to ensure a backup server is readily available in the event of a system failure. There will no impact to your websites should a problem occur with one of the servers. Our resilience setup ensures peace of mind allowing you to focus your attention on other aspects of your business.

Performance

As a Managed UK Web Hosting provider, we believe all our hosting packages should never compromise on performance. We are able to deliver high amounts of resources on our smaller packages ensuring each customer is able to host their websites without experiencing any form of slow down. We have achieved this on our new Linux cluster setup by using separate servers for each individual service running. Having separate server allows each server to focus entirely on its intended use.

Features

With the new Linux cluster servers in place, we have introduced a new supreme control panel. The new version for the control panel is version 6.0; it offers more features than ever before including WordPress, Joomla and a PHP bulleting board.

Support

With over 10 years experience within the web hosting industry, we like to think our trained staff can handle any support query within the quickest time possible. Our control panel interface was designed in-house; each and every support technician is fully trained to support our in-house systems.

Scalability

Implementing the new cluster system has proved to accommodate customers with rapid website growth. More resources are now readily available allowing customers to upgrade between various packages without changing physical server. This ensures a smooth upgrade process is always maintained.

We consider ourselves as a professional UK web hosting provider with a proactive approach to new technologies. Improving our setup is essential to maintain our excellent uptime and to ensure we offer the most uninterrupted web hosting experience. Our new Linux cluster setup is just one of our steps we have taken to maintain our excellent reputation and professional service. Take at look at our web hosting plans to view further information on what we can offer for your business.

Internet advertising is a way of reaching out to a massive audience targeting a specific market. Within the past 10 years the growth of the Internet has caused many large businesses to resort to spending thousands each year on internet marketing. Many businesses even rely on the Internet as their only form of advertising, and are entirely Internet based.

What can the Internet bring to my business?

Whatever type of business you run, using the Internet as a marketing tool will ensure you portray your message effectively to your targeted audience. Remember, the Internet is always available and just about every business now has access to it.

Think of the Internet as a worldwide community with everyone involved contributing towards it. The possibilities for Internet marketing are endless; with pay per click schemes, you can choose your own budget. You only pay for each visitor that links to your website, this new method in advertising is revolutionary. Advertising on a pay as you go basis not only ensures you do get visitors, it also ensures you stick to your budget.

What pay per click schemes are available?

Google are leading within the Internet industry at the moment with the rapid growth of their search engine. It only makes sense to do business with a recognised company with the largest amount of Internet traffic. Google AdWords allows customers to advertise on premium space which guarantees hits to your website, and if it doesn’t generate hits… you don’t pay for it!

Google AdWords is not a new form of marketing to many, although new businesses moving towards the Internet for advertising could possibility be put off by the lack of understanding and cost. This is where we can help your business…

We are offering free Google AdWords to every new customer signing up to a new hosting package. With £30.00 worth of Google AdWords you can experience Google advertising for no additional cost to your business. Every hosting plan includes general statistics on each unique visitor to your website. By monitoring statistics you can review how the advertising has improved your website traffic.

We don’t just stop there, for a total customer marketing experience. We now are offering £50.00 worth of Microsoft adCenter with all hosting packages. Use your Pay Per Click vouchers effectively to give your business a boost, taking advantage of Internet marketing from all angles.
Head over to our Google AdWords page to find out more, or you can call us to find out what we can do for you and your business, please find contact CWCS.

1. Support

With hosting being a specialised area within the IT industry, after sales support offered should to be second to none. Your business relies on a hosting provider to be pro-active and ready in the event of a disaster. Support is considered the number one underlying factor that digitises a good hosting provider among its competitors. Do your research before making a decision.

2. Guarantees

What promises does your hosting provider make?

A service level agreement should always be in place for bigger orders including dedicated servers. Read into the small print and find out exactly what is offered if the provider fails to deliver the promised service.

3. Flexibility

Assess how flexible the provider is from the initial contact, as your business grows requirements could change. You do not want to be stuck with a provider that can’t meet the demands of your business. Seek a provider that goes that extra mile to stretch to meet your requirements. Ask questions about services that are not listed on the website to assess how flexible a hosting provider is.

4. Relationship

For large hosting requirements a personal service is essential to ensure a good business relationship is maintained. In the event of an emergency you will need to know who to contact, who is able to deal with your query effectively with the quickest response. Ensure your provider will contact you regularly and provides a personal contact.

5. Infrastructure

Data centre infrastructure should consist of a solid setup able to cope with extreme situations from natural disasters to intruders. Equipment should be in place to protect the data centre environment with procedures supporting it. It’s important to ask about infrastructure before committing to a critical hosting service.

6. Reputation

Moving to a new hosting provider and assessing a company is not always an easy task. Research can help identify any major problems and quickly rule out companies from being suitable. Search for awards received and use recommendations on hosting comparison websites, avoid companies with a big name but a bad reputation.

7. Location

Not only is the location important to ensure the quickest connection, search engines actually use the physical location of your website as a determining factor to the listing position within the search results. And, find out if the support team are located at the same location as the data centre, support agents should always have physical access to each and every server.

8. Scalability

With any service that’s likely to change, its important to seek information about options available within the near future. Ensure there are no hidden costs when changing services. Is the company able to cope with your requirements in case of rapid expansion?

9. Features

Hosting packages always come bundled with a specific set of features, ensure you have exactly what you need before committing to a package. Be specific with your requirements and allow the company to recommend a hosting plan. The more information you provide about your business will make it easier for the company to determine exactly what is suited.

10. Cost

Cutting costs is important to all businesses, although you should always invest comparatively. You may pay a much larger cost later on if your hosting service is not suitable. Assess your own business and measure how important a web presence is to your business. Watch out for offers that seem too good to be true, as they usually are.

We have squeezed a massive amount of features into our smaller packages giving each package a total boost.

With mailboxes, web space, and Data transfer being the main focus of the upgrade, each and every customer can enjoy much more feature rich packages at the same low cost.

Our Windows Business plan now offers a massive 50GB UltraFast UK Web Space, 6,500 Mail Boxes, 350GB Data Transfer, Host 3 Domains, Email Anti Virus & Spam and much more at just £19.99 (+ VAT) per month, this is more than enough for most business customers. The total web space available is large enough to handle a massive amount of storage, reducing the physical limitations of the package.

Just take a look though our web hosting packages for full listings of all features available across the different plans.