Website Hosting & Email Accounts

For a web site to be seen by anyone looking on the world wide web it has to be housed/stored on a computer connected to the Internet all the time.

Although it's possible to host your website on your own computer, it's much safer and more reliable to use a professional hosting company. These companies have huge computers (called web servers) connected to wide bandwidth leased telephone lines connected directly to the web.

A Prompt is an authorised reseller for one of Europe's largest web site hosting companies ensuring your website is stored in safe, secure environment.

Our hosting company's computers use the latest Microsoft 2003 IIS6 servers with full support for ASP, Perl, CGI, PHP, ISAPI and SHTML scripting. Additionally, the Windows servers offer full and unrestricted support for the .NET Framework.

We provide optional online statisical reporting with all of our hosting solutions. Please click here to download a user guide for Matrixstats.

You can choose STANDARD (for HTML) or BUSINESS (for .ASP and .NET) hosting accounts for your website.

Each type of hosting account has different features to suit all capabilities of websites, please read on to find out your most suitable hosting account. Hosting can be upgraded at any time and we will advise the most suitable for your site, so if you have any questions, please ask us.

Standard Hosting for Static Sites
Static sites are hosted on a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. This hosting is suitable for html files and simple web scripts. Standard Hosting provides approximately 300MB web space and unlimited emails but does not support databases.

Business Hosting for Dynamic Sites (.ASP and .NET)
.ASP dynamic sites are hosted on a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. This hosting is suitable for html files and .asp scripts. Business Hosting provides various web space and email accounts with support for MS Access and SQL databases.

.NET dynamic sites are hosted on a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. This hosting is suitable for sites using the .net framework. This type of hosting is required for "web applications" or "mission critical" web sites. This type of hosting provides support for both MS Access and MS SQL databases.

Email Accounts
Our email system has many innovative features that allow us to offer you a feature rich e-mail service.

POP3 email accounts are email addresses that can be set up on different PC's, for example; enquiries@yourdomain.co.uk is one POP3 email account and support@yourdomain.co.uk is another POP3 email account - by being separate POP3 email accounts we set up one POP3 account on one PC and the other POP3 email account on another PC - that way each PC just receives their email and not anybody else's.

Setting up email accounts requires A Prompt to set up the accounts first then we will advise you when to set up the email accounts on your computer - whether in Outlook/Outlook Express or the Mac equivalent. We provide a user guide that you can download on how to set up new email addresses on your PC, if required.

Each domain gets a selection of full POP3 e-mail accounts, auto responders, and forwarders. These can be set up on any domain name, giving our customers full e-mail facilities.

SPAM filtering
Removes unsolicited e-mails. You can control the sensitivity of the filtering used, and decide what action should be taken when Spam e-mail arrives. This is a very popular added service for our customers.

Web Mail
With web mail you can check or compose your e-mail from any web browser, no matter whose computer you are using (just like Hotmail) - this means you can check your email anywhere and anytime so long as you have an Internet connection.