Once you have registered a domain you can go about setting up a website under this domain and using it for e-mail purposes. To enable you to do this you will require an Internet Service Provider to host your domain. Before choosing your service provider you should understand what is meant by "hosting", this page explains hosting in laymen's terms as well as detailing Knowall's hosting packages.
In
brief - hosting explained
Web & e-mail hosting allows your
company to use e-mail@itsdomain.co.uk
and host it's web site under www.itsdomain.co.uk.
Further details
In
brief - Knowall hosting services
Knowall supplies
combined hosting and domain registration packages. In the September issue
of Internet Works Firstnet,
Knowall's hosting provider, was voted the No. 2 hosting provider in the UK.
For further details see Knowall
hosting services & prices.
Before rushing out and purchasing e-mail hosting you must ask what your exact requirements are as there are a number of different forms of e-mail delivery to your desk top.
There
are 2 main types of e-mail hosting Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), where
the e-mails that you receive are automatically managed for you. And Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), where the e-mails received have to be managed
by your-self
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
The objective of SMTP is to transfer mail reliably and efficiently. This
is a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail
systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from
one server to another; the messages can then be retrieved with an e-mail
client using POP. SMTP is the protocol most commonly used by the Internet
to define how e-mail is transferred between computers.
Post
Office Protocol 3
POP can be thought of as a "store-and-forward" service. POP3 is the most
recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mails. So when e-mails
are sent to your POP account, the mail is stored on your server and has
to be retrieved with a login and a password. This is a client/server protocol
in which e-mails are received and held for you by your Internet server. Occasionally, you (or your client e-mail receiver) check your mail-box
on the server and download any mail. POP3, can be used with or without
SMTP.
No matter who designs and
manages your web site, a web site needs to have some type of computer
system as a host. It is this computer system that stores your web site
and is responsible for servicing requests made to it from the Internet.
If you are thinking about creating your own website but do not have Internet
connectivity, equipment or expertise to host the site yourself then Knowall
is the type of service you will require. Even if you already have an existing
site on-line and you feel that you may not be getting the best service,
we are confident that we can help you.
If you have built a web site you now need to ask an Internet Service Provider
to host the web site on your behalf, this will ensure when a browser types
in www.yourdomainname.co.uk they will be directed
to the web site you have constructed.
The
cost of the hosting service will depend very much on the demands of your
web site. If your web site is database driven or requires a secure environment
When it comes to hosting, the following have
a consideration on the price:
-
The size of the site
- The bandwidth required
(big graphics / file downloads)
- FrontPage compatibility
PGP / SSL / Perl requirements for scripting etc . . .
- The 'availability' of
the server
Knowall offers high performance, high availability, cost effective web hosting across UNIX and Windows NT platforms, support all major technologies.
Knowall web hosting is delivered through our co-location server farm housed below ground level in a dual skinned concrete lined ex-bank vault. Entry is restricted to authorised personnel through 2 one inch thick steel 'air lock' doors. The server farm is also fully alarmed and air conditioned.
Co-location
Services Provides Internet, data and voice access for your equipment from
simple co-location to outsourced solutions for small and large businesses.
For co-location and web servers we use 100Mbps switches linking back to
a central back-bone switch over gig fibre. This allows for very high availability
server clusters to ensure that customers sites are always swiftly delivered
to a visitors desktop. All vital systems are monitored with technicians
alerted via pagers / mobile phones if any problem arises.
Our world-wide backbone consists of fully redundant, fully meshed multi-megabit lines, which form a 'cloud' of interconnected rings. The backbone is engineered so that in the unlikely, potential event a line fails, traffic is promptly rerouted. This resilience is backed-up by triangulated connections into our Network Operations Center by four telecommunications providers. In terms of Internet bandwidth we have over 200Mbs coming into the building tracked back to both Telehouse in London and Telecity in Manchester using high capacity Frame Relay networks and private circuits.
At Knowall we have designed a line of products and services catered especially for the business. By mixing and matching our services, we are able to tailor solutions to meet any Internet need you may have. Detailed below are the "entry level" hosting services supplied by Knowall. If your web site requires specific applications to run on the server and is likely to generate a large amount of traffic, Knowall will supply a quote on an individual basis
If you need additional information on any of the services, please contact a member of our sales team for more information.