Hosting is often over-looked and in simple terms, hosting is a storage space that facilitates your website and email data.
Stoke Web Design includes hosting for the first year with all new website design packages. Our servers are based upon cloud clusters, providing a reliable and robust hosting environment.
If you are an eCommerce business with a large variety of products, then we have alternative hosting packages from VPS to dedicated servers providing greater data storage.
Our web servers are based in the UK, which helps with your website search engine optimisation. Google’s Matt Cutts famously stated that Google takes into account the geographic location of your web server when determining what results to find in returning search engine results.
We provide all the features you need including mail box accounts, email forwarding, email autoresponders with up to unlimited webspace and bandwith depending on the package you choose.
Content Distribution Network
In addition to our hosting services, we are now able to provide edge caching with Content Distribution Network (CDN).
CDN is all about making a website load faster for all users, wherever they are; by storing (caching) copies of your website on servers at the network edge. For example, if your website is hosted at a UK data centre, there might be a delay if you try to access that site from the USA. So a copy of your website is stored on a server closer to the user, called a Point of Presence (POP).
Multiple copies of your site’s data is stored at different POPs throughout the world, so your site will load faster. Your users will navigate your site more efficiently, wherever they are. While it’s good for users, it also helps your website in other ways. Search engines love fast-loading sites so there’s an SEO benefit to having a CDN.
