About 123-Reg.co.uk
With more than 2 million registered domain names, 123-Reg is the UK’s biggest domain provider, established in May 2000.
As part of the Webfusion Group, hosting almost 1.5 million web domains, 123-Reg is part of the country’s largest web provider that has led the market since 1997.
The company’s mission statement is that web site creation is not a closed shop but should be open to everyone. This has led them to create a range of web products that matches every customer’s ability and needs.
123-Reg is a green host based at Uxbridge, West London with 24/7 customer and technical support
Products and Services
123-Reg offers Shared Hosting and Dedicated Hosting to individual and business customers. Designers can also look towards Virtual Hosting solutions.
Businesses requiring remote collaboration can also opt for SharePoint Servers. SharePoint is designed to integrate Microsoft Office products across a work group or project team.
Support is built-in for content management systems Joomla, Drupal and WordPress and community forum PHP Bulletin Board. A lot of other Open Source PHP software is also supported and can be loaded with a single click.
Benefits of Using 123-Reg.co.uk
Every hosting package comes with the same basic configuration and then an array upgrades. The basics are:
- A free top-level domain
- An online control panel to configure your web hosting
- Log in for online web mail
- Protection for email from spam and malware
- Scripting
- A Google Adwords voucher
- A Microsoft adCenter voucher
- Linux and Windows options
Extras include a web site submission service and a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) option for sites collecting credit cards details or personal data.
Reliability and Performance
123-Reg confidently gives every hosting customer a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Hosting is provided through the Webfusion Group.
- Dedicated servers come with a 30 minute reboot guarantee, a 99.9% uptime money back guarantee and a bandwidth guarantee.
- Managed servers have a 99.9% uptime money back guarantee and a two hour resolution of software problems
Customer Service and Support
123-Reg offers a range of support options including:
- An online searchable FAQ and knowledge base
- Email or live chat by ticket to customer service or technical support
- 24/7 telephone support
Web Hosting Features
123-Reg has a hosting solution for every web site need – from web starters who need their hand held from the start to fully-fledged techies who can customise their own servers.
At the heart of the hosting options is the Plesk control panel that allows flexible configuration.
The hardware is the Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with dual Intel Quad-Core Xeon 5310 processors
Operating software options include Windows, MS Server and SQL, Ubuntu and Ruby on Rails.
ASP.net is also supported for enterprise web site development.
The 123-Reg data centre has Cisco network infrastructure with a massive 50,000-megabit connectivity. Bandwidth is unlimited and downloads are not metered.
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