E-commerce Web Hosting

Hosting a transactional e-commerce website is a specialist task requiring certain specific hardware, software and legal knowledge. E-commerce web hosting must be secure, compliant with data-protection regulations - and extremely reliable. Web server down-time for an e-commerce website is money lost. Security compromises and flaws can result in loss of reputation and trust at best - and serious legal consequences at worst.

PCI DSS Compliant Web Hosting

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It was developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organisations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, cracking and various other security vulnerabilities and threats. A company processing, storing, or transmitting payment card data must be PCI DSS compliant or risk losing their ability to process credit card payments and being audited and/or fined. We provide full support in ensuring your website is compliant - and is verified as such by an independent compliance body.

SSL (Secured Socket Layer) Certificates and Encryption

We provide SSL certificates for e-commerce websites - ensuring industry-standard encryption of sensitive payment data. We manage the installation and renewals of SSL certificates for our e-commerce hosting clients.

E-commerce Hosting Disaster Recovery

With a state-of-the-art hosting infrastructure, the risk of any loss of service and down-time is minimal - but a full disaster-recovery plan is essential nevertheless.

• Multi-location servers: We maintain servers in separate parts of the country. Should the main data-centre be destroyed - for instance by terrorist attack, plane-crash or other such event, the hosting of all our sites can be switched rapidly to the backup data-centre located in a different part of the country
• Rigorous backup procedures: All files and data on our servers are automatically backed-up each night. Backups are 'incremental' - with previous versions of sites and databases stored for up to 14-days, allowing any site to be restored to how it was at a certain point in time - not just to the most-recent backup date.
• Off-site backups: Backup data is stored securely at three separate locations in the UK - ensuring that even total destruction of a server, datacentre - or even an entire city - does not result in the irretrievable loss of your website files and data.