We are living in a world of constant change and this may present challenges for your business’ ability to react online. Prices change, economies fluctuate, staff come and go and customers needs vary from day to day. When choosing a hosting package from CWCS Managed Hosting you can be assured that as your needs change, CWCS web hosting plans offer you and your staff all the tools you need to be respond to changing demands flexibly.
When you make the decision to start an online presence in the form of a website, you may not have either the staff or the resources to run your own dedicated server (the hardware that connects your website to the internet). This is not a problem, as CWCS offer managed hosting, taking care of the set-up, running and maintenance for you. As your business grows and changes, the range of plans on offer are more than flexible enough to adapt to your needs.
When circumstances change, the tools you need to maintain a successful web presence will also need to change. This is why CWCS offers a range of packages containing all the tools your designers will need to create dynamic, modern and information-packed sites. Different businesses have different needs. Your staff may be used to certain web tools or operating systems. CWCS allow you to choose plans containing the latest web technologies – with a range of options to ensure that as you grow your online presence will continue to grow with you.

Most business people use a website to maximise sales and create interest in products. The temptation, therefore, is to go it alone. After all who knows your merchandise better than yourself? If you consider, however, that a website can look the part and still not function efficiently it becomes clear that this strategy is false economy.
The aim is to maximise the number of hits on your site and convert those hits, smoothly and rapidly, to sales. As internet users we have all been frustrated in the past by sluggish reactions caused by inappropriate imagery: or slow pages created by using the wrong applications.
To combat this, there are partners that can help by offering economical web hosting services and dedicated servers suitable for everyone, from cottage industries to multi-national companies, with 24/7 technical support which will help you to convert each click to a sale.
This sort of support means the technology hosting your website is fast to respond. You need a good bandwidth to ensure your website does not slow when it receives more traffic than usual and a reliable host to ensure your website is not offline when required.
At CWCS, our members of staff have a wealth of expertise ranging from the best web applications for your needs to the most effective Meta data to keep you up there with the high-flyers. They can advise you on the latest innovations and how they could impact on your business. Network monitoring, web ticketing and 99.9% uptime are just three of the ways you can benefit by using CWCS, and there are many more.

CWCS have many web hosting packages to choose from and you may be unsure about which one is right for you and your website? For personal websites and small or start-up businesses, you will probably want to start off with CWCS shared hosting, which comes with several options depending on your needs. If your website is mostly text-based, with a few images, no space-sapping videos or massive monthly traffic, then the Starter Plan will probably suffice, at least at first. There are limits to the amount of monthly data transfer and the web space you are allocated, but for many small sites this kind of web hosting is perfectly adequate. For larger websites, the CWCS Professional Plan could be the right web hosting for you. With a much larger allocation of web space to store the files, images, videos etc which make up your website, you can have a much more multi media website and more traffic. The data transfer allowance and number of mail boxes is also greatly increased. This would be an ideal web hosting package for most small to medium sized businesses. The CWCS shared hosting package which packs the most punch is our Business Plan. This is an option which can cater for larger, busier and more complex websites and everything that comes with that. As with all of our web hosting, whether you think you need shared hosting or are looking at dedicated servers or virtual dedicated servers, our sales and advice team can help you find the right package for your hosting requirements and your budget.

In an ideal world, your applications will be load balanced over several servers to prevent any load issues and downtime due to server crashes and have a failover system identical to the main system which can take over should your main system completely fail or become unreachable. This is however usually very expensive and many companies have to make a choice between having a load balanced system or employing a failover.

With failover, you would have two identical systems based in separate physical locations, should the main location or server become unreachable, the second server would take over. This protects you from natural disasters and network/power issues at your primary location. The benefits are that you have guaranteed uptime and virtually no chance of data loss. The draw backs however are that there are few easy ways to employ failover across 2 locations instantly. One of the preferred options is to use domain names to access your applications and make a dns change the instant the main server goes down. This can however cause problems with caching and can also interrupt work which is ongoing. You also have to take into account reverse migrating data back to the main server once it comes up as well as deciding how to take reboots into account. The copying of sensitive data between the two locations would also be best encrypted to avoid it being intercepted.

Load balancing usually has an increase in the numbers of points of failure, especially load balancing within 1 data centre (the usual method). If there is a power or network disruption, it can cause the load balancer to fail and thus the cluster becomes unreachable. The advantages however are pretty strong. The replication of data can be much faster and more easily managed if you use the DMZ (De-Militarised Zone) for your main application and database servers. Most load balancers will be much quicker, almost instant, in passing data to the least loaded and available server in the cluster. Another main benefit is for expansion, with failover you have to have 2 identical systems which can both deal with the single load. With load balancing you only need to cope with a little over the single load and can add servers where required should your single load increase.

Pro-actively finding new ways to improve our service and support is what CWCS Managed Hosting promises to all existing and new customers. There have been many improvements within the past year from new hardware to various offers and promotions. We have now introduced a brand new technical support local rate telephone number. You can call our technical support team directly now on:

0844 247 10 11

0844 is a low cost call charges depending on your telephone provider.
247 represents the availability of our technical support, ‘always available’ ensures problems can be resolve at any given time.

Introducing a lo-call rate telephone number for technical support gives our customers the opportunity to discuss any concerns without paying premium rates. CWCS Managed hosting offers an all-inclusive service, introducing the lo-call rate telephone number was an important step in keeping to our promises and providing unparallel levels of service and support.