Website design marketing and hosting in Telford Shropshire

Design Conscious .com Telford today announces the immediate availability of competitively priced self managed hosting accounts. You can now buy a hosting account direct for as little as £5 per month or with discounts just £57 per year.

You can benefit from a choice of 3 accounts which cover hosting for the beginners website through to fully loaded feature rich hosting accounts that include: multiple email addresses / mail boxes, multiple FTP Accounts, addon domains, Search Engine Submit Tool and a whole lot more

All hosting packages come with

• Generous webspace
• Full bandwidth
• FTP Access
• Multiple email mail boxes
• cPanel
• Search engine submit tool
• Web stats
• and many time saving features such as SpamAssassin, Backup Wizard

Purchase your hosting through our checkout partner Google Checkout which is processed through our COMODO secured ordering system.

And it’s so easy, here is a quick “How to purchase hosting in 10 easy steps” guide:

1. Choose your web hosting package here >> web hosting
2. Click the buy now / order now button
3. Specifiy your domain name choice and continue
4. Choose if you want to purchase monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly and add to cart
5. Enter a Promotional Code if you have one (join out mailing list here to get this months money off code)
6. Hit the Check Out button
7. Add your name and address details (this sets up your account with us)
8. Click Complete Order button - don’t forget to click ‘I have read and agree to the Terms of Service’
9. View your invoice and click the Pay link to use our payment partner Google Checkout
10. Pay by credit card at Google, then get back to your brand new hosting account and start web serving!

If you know your domain name is available (or is previously registered) and you have already added your credit card to your Google account - then it should take you no more than 10 minutes from start to finish…. but if you are having some challenges along the way - we have thought of that too, our client management system has a fully functional support ticket system built in to allow you to contact the design conscious hosting support team to help you with your problems >> click here to raise a support ticket

Website hosting is often miss understood and mistaken to be the same thing as a domain registration

Hosting is another vital part of your website, if you liken your domain name to your telephone number, your hosting can be thought of as your office. When someone rings your number (types your web address) they get through to your office. Hosting is where your website files reside, they sit on the hard disk of a hosting computer that is permanently connected to the internet.

When your web address (URL) is typed into a browser the hosting computer gets a request to serve the page. It could be asked to do this at any moment and has to be ready to respond, therefore it can’t be switched off, it has to be secure and the hosting provider has to have a back up plan for when it crashes. A good provider will have daily back ups, fast connections to the internet back bone and a good website statistics package.

As with most things there are different prices for the different levels of service required, a simple site doesn’t need database interactivity and therefore is cheaper than an ecommerce package.

There are two distinct types of website’s, the first is referred to as ‘Static’, the second is ‘Dynamic’.

STATIC
Static doesn’t mean still, it means the content is all included in the HTML pages, if you want to change the content you have to open the page in a HTML program and edit the text, just as you would with a Word document for example.

This type of package needs less computing power to drive it and generally doesn’t require any special languages or code to make it function and therefore the hosting costs are cheaper.

Advantages:

• Cheaper hosting
• Website is more portable between hosting providers

Disadvantages:

• If the content you wish to change is in multiple pages, you have to edit them all
• More pages are required to serve all your products - if you have 100 products you may need 100 pages
• Generally not searchable (without scripts installed)

DYNAMIC
A Dynamic website calls all its content from a database. The pages are written with scripts that requests the information ‘on the fly’ and populates the page with the appropriate content. To change the content, you edit the records in the database.

Advantages:

• Changing one record changes that specific information throughout the whole site
• Less pages are required, same page just different content every time.
• Content in the database can be displayed in many different ways
• Searchable

Disadvantages:

• Hosting is more expensive
• Needs specialised languages and scripts
• Even though there are less pages, each page is much more complicated and therefore time consuming to construct and test.

Decide from the beginning what type of site you need, a static site can be very effective but unwieldy if you have lots of products to promote, but a dynamic site can prove expensive for a first time site.

Contact us to discuss the options.