Fasthosts (www.fasthosts.co.uk), a provider of web hosting services based in the UK, announced on October 28, 2004 that it has launched three new web hosting packages with enhanced features at special promotional prices. The three new packages Standard at GBP3.99 plus VAT, Professional at GBP7.99 plus VAT and Expert at GBP15.99 plus VAT are available on both Windows 2003 and Linux RedHat Enterprise servers and include a large variety of web hosting features.
The packages include hosted POP3 e-mail with spam filtering, virus scanning and advanced e-mail SMS alerts with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 mail and collaboration tools. Web space provided with the new hosting plans varies from 750MB to 5GB and supports load balancing for maximum time and fast response. The web hosting accounts come with Fasthosts advanced graphical and statistics tool, advanced website password protection and secure socket layer support to allow safe e-commerce transactions. Website scripting options of the new packages include ASP, PHP, Perl, Python and CGI support and the ability to use ASP.NET running on the .NET Framework Version 1.1. Every hosting account is provided with Fasthosts’ easy-to-use website creation tool enabling customers without website scripting skills to build their own websites. The hosting packages provide support for MS SQL, MySQL and ODBC databases. The higher accounts also include access to space on Fasthosts’ shared database servers. Each account comes with web-based administrator control panel and mailbox owners’ control panels for online web and e-mail account management. Fasthosts provides 24x7 online and phone technical support for all account owners, extending to individual mailbox owners. The company offers free instant account setup and instant online activation. The web hosting accounts come with 30-day money back guarantee and the option to integrate uncapped broadband or dial-up Internet access with the web hosting service at any time.
Andrew Michael, CEO of Fasthosts, said that the company’s new range of hosting accounts were further evidence of Fasthosts’ commitment to maintain its position as the UK’s largest supplier of web hosting solutions to the discerning technical home user, SOHO worker and small to medium-sized enterprises. He added that it was Fasthosts’ highly featured product set that kept the company ahead of competition, and Fasthosts specially reduced promotional rates reinforced its strategy of delivering high value business solutions at the lowest possible price points.
