Coldfusion is a powerful and one of the easiest programming language powered by Adobe to generate dynamic web pages in the form of HTML. ColdFusion works on windows web hosting servers and offers powerful scripting to create dynamic websites with ease.

What can ColdFusion do ?

Using ColdFusion, Web developers can quickly develop a new generation of medium and large, resource intensive Web applications for almost everything ranging from e-commerce to business automation.
Embed Email messaging feature
You can query to backend database
You can update, index, and chart backend database
You can create/manage scheduled tasks and much more.

For ColdFusion Plans see: ColdFusion Hosting Plans

Login to your windows dedicated server as Admin
1. Start Registry Editor (start >> run >> type “regedit” and press ok).
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber

3. On the Edit menu, click Modify and then click Decimal.
4. Type the new port number, and then click OK.
5. Quit Registry Editor.
Done.. you have successfully changed RDP port of your Windows Dedicated Server.

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 web 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 web hosting 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 24x7x365. Servers deployed at the Data Center includes hardware replacement guarantee. In case of any hardware failure, the hardware is immediately replaced.

Call today to discuss dedicated server solution with WebHosting UK on 0808-262-0855, or request a quote online.

1. Where are your servers located ?
Ans: All our servers are located in world-class Blue Square Data Centre based in Maidenhead which is 20 Miles West of London, UK.

2. What Brand of servers/Chassis do you use for the Servers ?
Ans: We use only branded Chassis from Dell and we use latest state of the art Intel CPU’s for our servers.

3. Which ISPs do you use for network connectivity of your Datacenter / Servers ?
Ans: Our network transit connections are currently to Level 3, Tiscali, and Deutsche Telekom. We also peer with approximately 150 ISPs at the peering points LINX, XChangePoint, and LoNAP.

4. What is the Datacenter Connectivity and uplink for each dedicated server ?
Ans: We have a total of 40,000mbits of network connectivity for all our Servers. We have 4 x 10 Gbps links for our datacenter. Each Server in our datacenter is setup on 100 Mbps, fully-switched port on an edge switch. Each edge switch is then in turn plugged into two separate aggregation switches at 1gbit, with failover redundancy allowing either 1gbit link to fail.

5. What are the RAM specifications ?
Ans: Our Servers are equipped with DDR2 ECC SDRAM.

6. What types of Hard drives (HDD) do you use and what is the speed of your drives ?
Ans: We use SATA drives on our servers as advertised on our website, all of our SATA hard drives have a speed of 7500 rpm. We also provide SAS drives on some of our high configuration servers. SAS drives have a speed of 10,000 rpm. You can contact our Sales Department through our helpdesk to get more information on the available configurations.

7. How many websites can I host on a dedicated server ?
Ans: There is no such limit you can host unlimited number of websites on your dedicated server however it is sensible not to overload a server with more websites than it can cope with. This is dependent on the specification of your server and the type of websites that you want to host on it. WebHosting UK entry level server will comfortably host around 500 average websites.

8. What Operating systems do you Support ?
Ans: We Support Debian 4.1, CentOS 5.2, Fedora Core 8, Fedora Core 9 and RHEL 5.x Linux Flavors on our Dedicated Linux Servers while for Windows Servers we offer Windows 2003 Standard, Windows 2003 Enterprise, Windows 2008 Datacenter and Windows 2008 Web edition only.

9. What is your uptime Guarantee for Dedicated Servers ?
Ans: We offer 100% network and power uptime guarantee on all our dedicated servers.

10. What control panels do you support on your dedicated servers ?
Ans: We offer cPanel/WHM & Plesk Control panel options on our dedicated Linux servers for additional pricing whilst on Windows we offer Plesk control panel options. You can install any other control panel as per your requirements but we won’t support those control panels. As a part of our managed service we will provide support for OS related problems only if the control panel is not purchased through Webhosting.UK.com .

11. Do you include a backup service with the dedicated web hosting server plans ?
Ans: We offer 20 GB remote backup space free of cost with all our dedicated servers. Once you sign up for the dedicated server, you will need to contact our support dept. on setup of your server to allow our system admins to login and setup the backup scripts.

12. Do you provide RAID 0 or RAID 1 with your servers ?
Ans: We do offer RAID 0 or RAID 1 hardware configuration with our servers. Both these RAID configurations need 2 Identical hard drives. RAID 0 doesn’t help in case of Hard Disk Drive failure, RAID 1 mirrors data on 2 identical drives which allows you to swap drives incase of failure of one server hard drive. In the event of a Hard Disk Drive failure on RAID 0, data will be lost. More information on RAID can be obtained from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

13. Do you offer Load Balanced Servers ?
Ans: Yes. We do offer Load Balanced servers on Linux as well as on Windows platforms. We can setup a load balanced cluster using Cisco Load Balancing routers or by using windows load balancing feature which is inbuilt within the windows OS.

14. Do you offer MS Exchange Server ?
Ans: Yes. We do offer fully managed MS Exchange Server. We provide both MS Exchange 2003 and MS Exchange 2007 servers.

15. Do you offer Mirrored Servers ?
Ans: Yes. We do offer fully managed mirrored servers. We setup mirroring architecture on both the servers at no additional cost which effectively means you will only need to pay the applicable fees for the two servers. For Mirrored Servers you will have to consider two Dedicated Servers of similar configuration.

16. Do you offer unmetered dedicated servers ?
Ans: Yes. We provide unmetered bandwidth connection options with our Linux/Windows dedicated servers. dedicated servers. We offer 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 1000 Mbps Unmetered bandwidth connection with the dedicated server.

17. Where are your Support staff based ?
Ans: Our support staff are based in three locations. Some staff members are based in the Datacenter and the rest of the staff members are based in our offices in London and Durham.

18. Is there any money back guarantee on Dedicated Servers ?
Ans: We offer 30 day money back guarantee only in case of hardware failure or if the hardware is not as per the advertised specifications. We don’t offer any refunds for software related problems as you should communicate with our support team or the accounts person in charge of your account to get those sorted.

For Mirrored servers architecture, Web Hosting UK set-up 2 similar configuration servers in 2 different racks out of which one server is the master server and other is the slave server. After the implementation of mirroring, if for any reason, the master server fails, the slave server can immediately take its place without any downtime. We implement Mirroring Solution using FAM and RSYNC modules.

Failover Process:

Failover is a process in which the slave server stands in for master server in case the master server goes down. With the help of Failover, user and application requests that are directed to the failed master server are routed to the slave server.

Restoration process:

Restoration process involves copying replicated data from the slave server to its original location which is the master server. Data restoration process only requires selection of the source, target, and the appropriate replication set. Individual file selection or remembering the exact data location on the source is not required since that information is already maintained.

Restoration process comes into contention in case the data on the master server is lost due to a disk crash or when the most up-to-date data exists on the slave server due to failover. Because of the continued updates on the slave server, when the master server is ready to come back online, the two servers will no longer contain the same data. Restoration is the process of copying the up-to-date data from the slave server back to the master server when it comes back online.

We setup mirroring architecture on both the servers at no additional cost which effectively means you will only need to pay the applicable fees for the two servers. For Mirrored Servers you will have to consider two Dedicated Servers of similar configuration.

For more information about server mirroring, please contact our sales department.

Ans: Load-balancing enables the traffic distribution of a busy website among a server cluster. Busy websites usually employ a server cluster of two or more server to evenly distribute traffic whereby traffic is evenly distributed among all servers in the cluster. Using this technology, multiple small servers can be used in the place of one large server. This not only ensures high performance but also ensures redundancy. If a server in a cluster experiences an unusually high load it will no longer receive traffic and the other servers will take over the load.

Load Balancing also allows scalability wherein servers can be added or removed from the cluster as and when needed.

Can I cluster my existing server ?

Ans: Yes, you can cluster your existing server(s). The applications on the servers may need to be set up correctly for load balancing, but an existing server can be used in a load-balanced configuration.

Is all the traffic automatically distributed ?

Ans: No. Each Web Server will have a public IP assigned to it as well as a Internal LAN IP. After the implementation of Load Balancing routing rules on the Load Balancer, we configure Firewall rules to allow web traffic on the Web servers to pass trough the Load Balancer.

Will I be able to reach my servers directly ?

Ans: Yes. There will be a virtual IP that represents the cluster and each server will also have its own real IP that can be used to access the server directly.

Can I add or remove servers from my cluster without downtime ?

Ans: Absolutely. One of the best things about load-balancing is that it allows you to add or remove servers from the cluster without any downtime. It also allows to upgrade software or the OS on one server at a time while the cluster continues to function and serve content.

How much traffic can a cluster handle ?

Ans: That depends on the individual servers in the cluster. The cluster can handle the total traffic that all the servers in the cluster can handle.

Do the servers in a cluster have to be identical ?

Ans: You can have servers with different hardware and software specifications clustered together. This also allows for great flexibility.

Please take a look at our Dual Core and Quad Core Intel Xeon web hosting servers for your load balanced system requirements http://www.webhosting.uk.com/load-balancing-servers.php

Contact us through our Live Chat or call today to discuss a load balanced solution with WebHosting UK on 0808-262-0855, or request a quote online.

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. Load balanced servers are fully configurable to your requirements. Load balanced servers not only ensures high performance but also ensures redundancy. Load Balancing also allows scalability wherein servers can be added or removed from the cluster without any downtime as and when needed. It also allows to upgrade software or the OS on one server at a time while the cluster continues to function and serve content. You can have servers with different hardware and software specifications clustered together.

Please take a look at our Dual Core and Quad Core Intel Xeon web hosting servers for your load balanced system requirements http://www.webhosting.uk.com/load-balancing-servers.php

Contact us through our Live Chat or call today to discuss a load balanced solution with WebHosting UK on 0808-262-0855, or request a quote online.

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 web 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 remain completely in the background and management of the server hardware and software will be taken care of by us.

We can not offer Custom branded dedicated servers with the standard number of IP address we provide on a server. It’s not possible to rename IP whois information of few IP’s. This service is not available with Semi-Dedicated or Virtual Private Servers or Shared hosting. Customer who wants to opt for custom branded dedicated server will need to buy complete IP subnet.

Contact us through 24×7 Live Chat or call today to discuss custom branded dedicated server solution with WebHosting UK on 0808-262-0855, or request a quote online.

A Dedicated Server is where one customer rents or leases one or more dedicated servers for their own use. A Dedicated Server is dedicated only to a single user and it is setup according to the users preference. With dedicated server web hosting you don’t need to share your server RAM, hard disk space, bandwidth or a connection to the router. With Dedicated server you get your own hosting server for your website instead of having to share a server with others, which could accommodate several websites. In a dedicated server hosting environment, the client decides which Internet services – mail, Web, FTP, etc. fits their needs the best. A client can put hundreds or thousands of websites on a single dedicated server. The user has complete control of every single process the dedicated server will perform from choosing an operating system to accepting or installing 3rd party software for security, e-mail or whatever the user would need a 3rd party for.

The benefit of using dedicated server hosting is that your website performance will not be affected by high traffic websites that would have been sharing your servers bandwidth. Dedicated hosting is extremely flexible, and often fits the needs of the more sophisticated users. Dedicated servers can be used to manage emails and domains and a dedicated server can be used by a company so that employees can share and access files from wherever they can get internet access. Usually a dedicated server is used by the companies or individuals who run very high traffic sites and need a large amount of bandwidth and consistent performance.

1. You do not have to purchase or maintain your own equipment.
2. Better website performance b’coz you are not sharing the server resources such as processor power, memory and hard disk space with other web sites on the same server.
3. No chance of your website being affected by another website on the same box, as in shared web hosting environment.
4. As nobody else has access to the dedicated server you can be sure of having a much greater degree of security.
5. If you need to install customize or third party software/applications or configure the server to your own particular needs then often a dedicated server is the solution.
6. Dedicated Server has its own unique IP address.
7. You can upgrade the server resources like Memory, Disk Space, Bandwidth or Processors as the need arises.