Web shop hosting and support

When your web shop is launched to the world, we will provide secure, fast and reliable hosting on our dedicated server, together with unlimited free support by email and telephone.

The most critical phase of developing your web shop is the period after you launch. Without the right hosting and support, you may find yourself struggling when you need advice and improvements to your website.

Web shop hosting

Host your web shop on our secure, fast and reliable dedicated server.

Hosting can generally be placed into one of two categories - shared or dedicated. As the name implies, shared hosting means you share a server and its resources with a number of other websites, and this is very much the best option for low-to-medium-traffic web shops. Dedicated hosting is where your website has a whole server to itself, meaning 100% of the resources available on the machine are available to your web shop. Depending upon the set up required, this can prove expensive, but, for high-traffic or highly-customised websites, can improve performance considerably.

At Webthinking, we house our own servers in a Manchester datacentre, and all of our clients' websites are hosted on these. Therefore, what we have is a near-dedicated set up, where your web shop should see the advantages of dedicated hosting, but at costs comparable to shared hosting.

Please note that shared hosting provided elsewhere can have upwards of 1,000 websites on a single server, which can severely affect performance.

Every web shop we design and develop comes with a year's free hosting on our dedicated server, meaning you don't have to worry about that extra cost until the second year.

Web shop hosting	Included
Free hosting for first year
Near-dedicated server performance
Secure server with all required software
Server located in secure data centre in Stratford
Unlimited POP3 email accounts
Unlimited sub-domains and redirects

Web shop support

As with all aspects of our business, we aim to provide a comprehensive and personalised web shop support service to all of our clients, regardless of size or frequency of contact.

Free, friendly and personal advice and support are available by email and telephone whenever you need us and you can be sure to speak to someone who knows you each time you do. Whether you'd like to discuss a problem you need solving or get some advice on writing HTML for your static web shop pages, we're available and happy to help. Emails are answered quickly and telephone messages are returned, and this continues long after we've launched your web shop. In fact, it continues indefinitely!

Free bug-fixing

Bugs are an unfortunate necessity of programming, but we provide a free bug-fixing promise for your web shop. If you find a bug, and we agree that it is, we will fix it without charge.

Please note that this service is only provided for web shops hosted on our server. This is due to the possibility of third-party tampering when hosted elsewhere, as our server is completely secure and only accessible by Webthinking staff.

Web shop support	Included
Free telephone support and advice
Free email support and advice
Free bug-fixing
Speak directly with your web shop developer / designer