Q. Will Cisco ASA 5510 Dedicated Firewall provide uninterrupted services in case of DDoS (Denial of Service) attacks?

Ans: Cisco ASA 5510 can filter DDoS upto 80 Mbps only. There’s no hardware Firewall available in market that can handle anything more than 100 Mbps. We are affiliated with a US based anti-DDoS service provider and they have various plans to handle DDoS of upto 10 Gbps. They charge £ 1500 per month for high volume DDoS attack.

Webhosting UK offers shared as well as dedicated Cisco hardware firewall with UK Dedicated Servers.

Hardware Firewall:
1. Cisco ASA 5510 Shared Firewall - £ 25 per month
2. Cisco ASA 5510 Dedicated Firewall - £ 199 per month

Q. Do you provide Custom Branded Dedicated Servers?

Ans: Yes. Webhosting UK provides Custom Branded Dedicated Servers. These servers are servers with custom IP whois information in the IP whois look up. Custom branded dedicated servers is mainly a concept designed for medium and large web hosting providers.

For example: A reseller hosting provider uses private nameservers to hide his actual hosting provider’s details from his clients and to portray that he himself is the hosting provider. Similarly medium and large webhosting providers prefer dedicated servers with custom whois information to not let their customers know, or easily find out, where their services are located. Such Dedicated Servers with “custom” whois information in the IP whois are called custom branded dedicated servers. With custom branded dedicated servers your customers won’t know that you get the hosting service from us.

We can not offer Custom branded dedicated servers with the standard number of IP address we provide on a server. Customer who wants to opt for custom branded dedicated server will need to buy complete IP subnet.

For further information just contact our sales department through Helpdesk or 24×7 live chat support.

Q. Should I opt for a Linux server or a Windows server ?

Ans: If you specifically require ASP, ASP.NET, IIS, MS SQL, MS ACCESS server or any other Microsoft products then you will probably want to opt for a Windows server.  Otherwise, Linux is a far more reliable, secure and economical solution. Administering a Linux dedicated server system does requires some level of technical expertise.

Q. What exactly semi-dedicated server hosting means.

Ans: Semi-Dedicated server is not a fully private dedicated server that you own yourself. That will be a dedicated server. Webhosting UK semi-dedicated server is a dedicated server that is shared only between 12 clients. With the semi-dedicated server you will get full root ssh access, RDP access and guaranteed amount of RAM. You have total control over your server and configuration. You have access to a large portion of the server resources, allowing you to run more traffic and resource intensive websites as well as more complex scripts and softwares without CPU latency becoming an issue.

Webhosting UK semi-dedicated hosting accounts are setup on a powerful Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon E5420 processors. The servers is having 12 GB DDR2 RAM which ensures that each semi-dedicated account hosted on the server gets at least 1 GB of Guaranteed RAM.

Semi-dedicated server is the perfect intermediary step between migrating from a virtual private server (VPS) hosting to a dedicated server and it also gives you room to expand before you have to invest in a full fledged dedicated server.

Q. Why choose Webhosting UK Linux/Windows dedicated servers ?

Ans: All Webhosting UK Linux/Windows Dedicated Servers are fully managed and monitored round the clock. We use only branded Chassis from Dell and we use latest state of the art Intel CPU’s for our servers. As far as our network connectivity is concerned, we have 2 x 10 Gbps uplinks for our Datacenter. We have connectivity from all leading ISP’s in Europe as we are directly connected with London hub of all the ISP’s. All servers have 100 Mbps Nic card and they are connected to 1 Gbps switch.

Dedicated Server management includes security monitoring, installing, compiling and maintaining the standard server application/software package, latest security updates, Spam filter, virus-protection and technical support to ensure that it performs and run in a safe and secure manner 24×7x365. Servers deployed at the Data Center includes hardware replacement guarantee. In case of any hardware failure, the hardware is immediately replaced.

For more information just contact our sales department through helpdesk or 24×7 live chat support.

Q. Do you provide unmetered bandwidth connection on Dedicated Servers ?

Ans: We provide unmetered bandwidth connection options with our dedicated servers. We offer 10Mbps, 100Mbps and 1000Mbps Unmetered bandwidth connection with the dedicated server. Unmetered Dedicated Servers will have full duplex dedicated bandwidth connection it will not be shared.

Unmetered bandwidth options:

1. 10 Mbit Unmetered bandwidth - dedicated, unshared 10Mbit full duplex connection.
2. 100Mbit Unmetered bandwidth - dedicated, unshared 100Mbit full duplex connection.
3. 1000Mbit Unmetered bandwidth - dedicated, unshared 1000Mbit full duplex connection.

Unmetered bandwidth pricing:

1. 10 Mbit Unmetered bandwidth - £ 20.00 per month
2. 100Mbit Unmetered bandwidth - £ 799.00 per month
3. 1000Mbit Unmetered bandwidth - £ 4000.00 per month

Q. What would you recommend phpBB or vBulletin forum software?

Ans: phpBB and vBulletin both are very popular forum software and is used by many bulletin board users on the Internet. phpBB forum software is free but vBulletin is not free. To install vBulletin forum software, license copy of the software is required. Both the bulletin boards has their own active community and the community members are always available to troubleshoot the errors which you may encounter. Both the bulletin boards have there own advantages and disadvantages. As per your requirement you can opt for either phpBB or vBulletin.

To know more about these forum softwares you can visit their official websites and communities.

www.phpbb.com

www.vbulletin.com

Q. Do you have any solutions for load balancing?

Ans: Yes, We have solution for load balancing. We offer load balanced Web Servers or Apache Servers and SQL Servers. We have expertise in setup and management of Load Balanced Servers as we are hosting couple of high specification load balanced servers from few years. Please take a look at our Dual Core Xeon and Quad Core Xeon Servers as advertised on http://www.webhosting.uk.com/dedicated.php Servers can be customized as per your requirement.

For more information just contact our sales department through helpdesk or 24×7 live chat support.

Q. What is the contention ratio of your Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Hosting ?

Ans: The contention ratio is the amount of vps users we put on the same vps node. Some vps hosting providers practice the nasty habit of overselling; that is, creating as many vps hosting accounts onto the same vps node as possible and praying that they don’t all use their dedicated resources at the same time. That is not what we do. Even if all the vps hosting users on one of our VPS nodes were to use 100% of their vps hosting resources simultaneously, there would be enough to go around with plenty to spare. You can rest assured that your vps hosting account will always be stable and unaffected by the actions of any other Webhosting UK VPS hosting user.

Q. What does Webhosting UK dedicated server management include?

Ans: All our servers are fully managed and come with full administrative access to give you complete control, as well as the ability to customize the server as per your needs. The key to our clients’ online business success is smooth and seamless functioning of their server. Dedicated servers require constant monitoring, care and maintenance which is taken care of by our experienced System Administrators. They ensure that your server is always available, has the latest security updates installed and technical issues if any are resolved as soon as possible.

Webhosting UK Linux/Windows dedicated server management responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks:

• SSH Security and Configuration
• Optimization and Hardening
• Firewall Configuration
• Server Monitoring Process
• Linux Server Security
• Apache Tweaks
• Environmental security
• Security Audit
• Securing Binaries
• Firewall Configuration
• DNS recursion restriction
• Email scanning for viruses and spam
• RDP security
• Windows Server Security
• Scripting mail components
• Scripting Languages
• Image Upload components
• System Security
• Server Migration
• 3rd Party Software Installation
• WHM/CPanel and Plesk control panel Technical Issues
• Initial Server Setup
• Backend Server Software Upgrades
• Database administration
• Application monitoring and updates
• Intrusion detection
• Performance tuning

Please visit our fully managed dedicated server information pages to view our complete list of functions which are performed by our seasoned System Administrators to maintain your managed Linux/Windows dedicated server round the clock to ensure that it performs in a safe and secure manner 24×7x365.

Linux Server Management Overview
Windows Server Management Overview