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Website hosting

A website hosting service allows companies and organizations to make their website accessible on the internet.

The scope of a web hosting services varies greatly. The most basic is web page and small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploaded via FTP or a web interface. There are many internet service providers (ISPs) that offer this service for free or very cheaply to their clients.

The Online Innovations website hosting services however is geared for premium business website hosting. Company or business websites are generally quite complex and calls for a more comprehensive package that provides database support and application development platforms (ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, MS SQL 7, MS SQL 2000, mySQL, SSL for secure e-commerce transactions and Microsoft FrontPage Extensions), firewall security protection and backups ? all adding up to a higher expense.

Reliability and uptime

The availability of a website is measured by the percentage of a year in which the website is publically accessible and reachable via the internet. Online Innovations can proudly boast an uptime of 99.99%.

  • Online Innovations website hosting services are hosted on world-class and reputable Internet networks. And can offer local and international hosting solutions to cater for our client?s needs.
  • The web servers are secured by a firewall and are monitored on a 24 hour basis by skilled engineers.
  • The web servers are backed up daily.

Hosting solutions

Online Innovations have a deep understanding of the Internet.

Shared web hosting service

Websites are placed on the same server as many other sites. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU.

Virtual dedicated hosting server service

Also known as a Virtual Private Server (VPS), divides server resources into virtual servers, where resources can be allocated in a way that does not directly reflect the underlying hardware. VPS will often be allocated resources based on a one server to many VPSs relationship, however virtualisation may be done for a number of reasons, including the ability to move a VPS container between servers.

Dedicated or managed hosting service

Online Innovations will provide clients with their own web server and may have full control over it.

Cloud hosting service

Is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting, based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing

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