business spec web hosting

Web Hosting Control Panel
The "Ensim Pro" control panel allows you to manage all aspects of your hosting account. From adding email accounts to managing your MySQL databases, you can do it all quickly and easily.

FTP and SSH Access
You are provided full FTP and SSH access to your webspace. FTP allows for fast and easy file transfer and management. SSH allows you direct command line access to your webspace via shell.

Web based File Manager
We recommend FTP for uploading your website files. However, when FTP is not practical you can use the web based file manager provided to upload and/or manage your website files directly from a regular web browser.

AWStats - Website Visitor Statistics
AWStats is a powerful website visitor statistics program which gives you simple graphical and statistical information about the visitors to your site and their habits.

Instant & Scheduled Backups
From your control panel you can create an instantly downloadable backup of your website, or schedule a regular automatic backup for later on! You can also restore previous backups to your webspace.

Sub Domains
Sub domains allow you to setup separate sub sites within your main website, for example you can create http://blog.yoursite.com to start a blog separate to your main website.

Park Additional Domain Names
You can park as many extra domains on top of your main website as you need. Handy if you wish to have website.com, website.co.uk, website.net etc. all pointed to your main website!

PHPMyAdmin MySQL Management
PHPMyAdmin is a popular, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. You can login and manage your databases from an easy to use control panel in your regular web browser.

Scheduled Tasks / Cronjobs
You may have a script or task on your website or application that needs to run at a certain time each day or week. We allow you to use Cronjobs to accomplish this.

Password Protection Tool
Your control panel allows you to password protect directories on your website. You can then manage users, passwords and groups who are allowed access to these protected areas.

Web Based Email Access
Squirrelmail software is already installed to your web hosting. This provides simple, fast access to your email via a regular web browser. Perfect if you don't like email software such as Outlook, or if you are away from your own PC.

POP3 & IMAP Access
Our service fully supports POP3 and IMAP access to your mailboxes. This allows you to choose any popular email program to access your email such as MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora.

SMTP Access
We allow you to use our SMTP server to send email from your hosting account with us. We also provide SMTP on alternative port 26 for those advanced users who may have ISP's blocking port 25.

MailFoundry Spam & Virus Filter
We provide premium MailFoundry spam filtering for your email as standard. This industry-leading spam filtering removes 99% of all spam and viruses from your emails. You won't find better filtering!

Email Aliases
Email aliases are similar to email forwarders, and allow you to setup email addresses @yoursite.com which will forward to mailboxes elsewhere, such as to your @hotmail, or to multiple other email recipients.

Email Forwarding
Email forwarding simply means you can forward email for user@yoursite.com hosted with us to a mailbox elsewhere such as you@hotmail.com or any other email address.

Auto Responders
Auto responders can be setup from your control panel and allow you to setup a pre-written reply which will be sent instantly to anyone emailing a set email address.

Vacation / Out of Office Reply
When you leave your email for long periods of time you can enable vacation responders, to let people know you are away from your email and that you will reply as soon as possible.

MySQL Databases
MySQL databases are easily managed from your web hosting control panel.

PHP4 and PHP5
Both PHP4 and PHP5 are provided for your site. We run your own secure install of PHP, meaning you have full access to php.ini to make any necessary changes. Our PHP installation is far more secure than other traditional shared hosting.

Perl 5, CGI, SSI & PEAR
We support all of the above scripting languages.

WebDav or MS Frontpage
We support the use of WebDav or Microsoft Frontpage Extensions to publish your site designs to our servers.

Apache mod_rewrite
Mod_rewrite is pre-installed to your webspace allowing you to "rewrite" URL's on-the-fly. Mod_rewrite is handy for moving and manipulating web pages for tasks such as Search Engine Optimisation.

.htaccess
.htacceess is supported. You can use it for many tasks including custom error documents, blocking users and IP's, redirects, MIME Types, preventing hotlinking and much more.

MIME Types
MIME types are used to identify the type of information that a file on your hosting contains. Standard MIME Types include .html, .php and .pl but you can add custom MIME Types as required.

Raw Log File Access
Raw log files for your site are available to you for viewing or downloading including error_log and access_log containing script debug information and information on your site visitors.

All servers are supplied by Dell or Supermicro and are server-grade equipment featuring the latest processors. All servers also feature a minimum 4GB+ of memory and RAID protected disks. Absolutely no expense has been spared.

Server Hardware

• * Latest server-grade rackmount servers from Dell or Supermicro
• * New Intel Xeon Woodcrest or AMD Opteron Dual-Core Processors
• * Servers run Dual Dual-core processors meaning 4 Processors total!
• * A minimum of 4GB ECC registered DDR memory
• * Hardware RAID redundant disk controller cards from 3ware
• * Western Digital Raid Edition SATA hot-swappable hard disks
• * Fully burstable 100Mbit Fast Ethernet connection to our network
• * APC power management and remote reboot management
• * KVM over IP remote management interface console
• * Separately managed MailFoundry dedicated spam filtering servers
• * Four daily remote backups of all servers to secure off-site London location

Server Hardware

This list provides the most commonly requested version information. View our hosting pages for more information on all the software and services made available to you with our services.

• * CentOS 4 Enterprise Linux Operating System
• * LAMP Environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• * Apache 2.x
• * MySQL 4.1.x
• * Latest PHP version 5.2.x
• * Zend Optimizer 3.2.x
• * Pear 1.3.x
• * Perl 5.8.x
• * Parallels Pro Control Panel (Formerly Ensim Pro)
• * Each hosting account is run within its own secure chroot jail environment

Other Server Hardware

• * We utilise MailFoundry 4100 dedicated servers to filter spam and virus' from your email
• * We have off-site NAS storage servers which we backup all data to 4x per day

The above information represents our default server setups. If you have a specific software or hardware requirement for your hosting, please contact us to discuss a suitable solution.