What is web hosting?

Web hosting refers to where your website files that are viewed on the Internet are actually stored. They will be stored on a fast computer, usually called a server, that is continuously connected to the Internet.

Web hosting

Web hosting is now very much cheaper than a few years ago, and so if you selected your web host several years ago it may be worth shopping around. There is no need for any small organisation to put up with advertising banners across their website. The standard features offered by hosting companies have also improved significantly. Cornish WebServices can provide very competitive web hosting for website design or marketing clines. For basic web hosting you should be able to get webstats, cgi/php scripts and multiple email accounts. For anything other than a simple home user website we would recommend getting provision of 1 MySQL database. We would not recommend using the free web space provided by ISP's for any business website.

Unless your website has ASP applications which require a Windows server, we would recommend a Unix/Linux platform as these servers are more reliable, cheaper and applications tend to be better written and run faster on this platform.

Web hosting services provided by Cornish WebServices

Cornish WebServices can, if required, provide suitable web hosting services for clients using our website design or marketing services. We will either use one of our own dedicated servers (maintained by 3rd party hosting companies) or other shared hosting space we have access to in various countries around the world. For marketing reasons, Cornish WebServices have hosting space on servers in the UK, US, France, Spain, Germany, Holland and Russia. More detail on these various hosting options.

All hosting includes good web statistics, full scripting and database facilities and multiple email accounts. Our business is Internet Markwting and website design. We do not make money from client hosting, but provide this as a service (it is often quicker for us to use our dedicated server than sort out problems on clinet hosts).

We are also happy to work with any existing host a client has, provided this can provide the required level of service. Although we prefer to work with unix servers, especially for database driven websites, we do not insist on this and are able to work with other types, such as Windows servers.