About Us
We believe that web hosting is more than just providing web space and FTP access.
Our aim is to provide individuals and businesses with everything they need to express themselves on the Internet, be that through an idea or selling goods and services. Whatever you want to create a website for, be it a small family photo album or a full powered data base driven ecommerce website, your choice of web host is essential. The right web host will make the difference between a slow clunky site that has regular down time and a site that is always available and blisteringly fast!
6 reasons to choose us for your web hosting
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1. Quality hostingOur purpose built web hosting infrastructure is unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability. |
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2. Excellent customer serviceOur support database provides the answers to the majority of web hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are on hand to answer any questions you may have. |
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3. Value for moneyBecause all of our hosting technology has been developed by us in-house we don't have any expensive licensing fees to pass on to our customers. That means we can offer you more for less! |
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4. We put you in controlWe believe in developing highly automated systems giving customers complete control of their web hosting. Our web hosting control panel is one of the most advanced available today. |
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5. You can grow with usOur web hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their first website through to SME's demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution. |
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6. Constant Monitoring and Security UpgradesWe take our customer's security very seriously and all software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released. |
Our hosting technology
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PlatformWe only use Dell servers in our web hosting platform. Our platform is designed to be highly redundant and all data is stored in network disk arrays. |
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Data centreWe utilise uninterruptable power supplies and an n+1 generator setup to ensure constant and clean energy to our infrastructure. The data centre is protected by fire suppression, monitored by CCTV both externally and internally, has 24x7x365 onsite security and the building is surrounded by an 8ft perimeter fence. |
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SecurityWe are automatically informed of new security patches via our vendor. Patches are applied within 24 hours. Our own platform is scanned each month for application vulnerabilities and we use a network scanner to identify weaknesses in our network. |
Managing your website
Our control panel is one of the world's most advanced web hosting control panels currently available. Here is a quick summary of the great features available to our web hosting customers...
Read More About Our Control Panel...
SEE OUR CONTROL PANEL DEMO
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iPhone control panel
Customers can also manage their websites and hosting accounts on the move with our exclusive iPhone control panel which has all the same functionality of the standard control panel. This is free for all our web hosting customers.
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We give you more!
We want our hosting customer's websites to be a success and with this in mind we also provide our hosting customers with one of the biggest CGI script libraries in the UK including one click install WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, BuddyPress, OpenX & Drupal.
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WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It's easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. |
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BuddyPress is a suite of WordPressMU social networking plugins and themes to empower you to create your own social network. |
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. |
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phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB3 has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. |
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Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users easily to publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. |
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Openads is a hugely popular advert server designed for web publishers. It gives you the tools you need to make the most from online advertising. With Openads you will be able to manage sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the advertising on your websites. |
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What we're about, where we came from and where we're going - A note from the owner
HostPost has roots in the photographic industry as it was founded and run by me 'David' an ex-professional freelance photographer of more than 10 years experience.
I Started my photographic career when using film stock and dark rooms was the norm'. Back then the only way then to get a digital image was to feed a negative into a film scanner the size of a milk create! And then after about 3 minutes of making all sorts of strange machine noises it churned out a digital image onto a screen. The file size was a massive 1.2MB!
Then came the digital revolution. Of course some said it was a fad and will never replace true photography. But I wasn't one of them. I found it exciting even though working through the industry transition to digital imagery was a painful business. It was frustratingly slow, cumbersome and expensive to get started at first as the major players fumbled around finding a set up that worked. But once a few technical dilemmas were solved and the teething problems with the chips and processors was cracked from there it gathered pace at a phenomenal rate. This lead to whole new working practices and coupled with the explosion of the Internet suddenly it was a whole new world. For one clients were no longer happy to wait a day to see a contact sheet from a shoot. It was expected in a matter of hours, if not sooner.
I remained in the industry for a number of years and developed a keen interest in computing and the development of the Internet. Because of that I slowly drifted into doing more web based work. After a while I found a keyboard in my hands more often than a camera. I'd be lying if I quoted all kinds of IT qualifications here, the truth is I am entirely self taught. Not that I see that as a disadvantage.
A few years passed and I got to a point where I was running quite a number of websites with various topics all over the place. It didn't make sense so I found a way to consolidate all the sites in one place. Jason Friend (new window link) a successful photographer I had got to know was also running his own small hosting business. He used it mainly to host his own sites plus a few others for people he knew. I moved all my sites under Jason Friend Hosting where my hosting needs were catered for nicely for a couple of years.
Jason, being a busy photographer really didn't have time to develop the hosting business side. I was being asked by a few people to build sites for them and decided to go into web hosting myself. Come my yearly renewal I mentioned this to Jason who responded by offering me the business. After some negotiating I took over Jason Friend Hosting in March 2009. HostPost Web Services was born.
I came into hosting with a plan of what I wanted to do with it. Because of my photographic background and past web work I saw a need for affordable limitless unrestricted hosting. So I wanted to aim the main target audience for hosting at the high volume professional user such as photographers who use more than average space and bandwidth. While removing the limits from space and traffic it seemed to made sense to also remove the limits from all the other resources as well, even how many domains you can have on the same package. In putting together the hosting plans I wanted to market they became totally unlimited products. This removed the million dollar question of choosing which hosting plan is more suited to customer needs. All there is to decide is 'do I have one domain to host or several'. This is the philosophy of HostPost Web Services. At HostPost we believe in good service at a fair and competitive price without all the fuss.
Even though we are marketing hosting products specially aimed at the professional business user, anyone who needs an affordable hosting solution without the restrictions is of course welcome.
Although our hosting principal is based on unlimited plans we recognise the fact that there are some users who do not have such high demands on web resources or need such fully loaded packages. Particularly if they are just starting out. So we have introduced a simplistic starter plan to cater for new users or the small usage customer. Ideal for the amateur, semi professional photographer who needs to get a small portfolio online to promote themselves. We have even included ''Coppermine' open source image management software in the package for this very purpose.
And finally, if you have any comments, feedback or questions about our services I would really like to hear them. Thank you for your time reading this.
