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Windows Hosting Features and Services


At Web Wiz we believe in giving customers good service and value for money. This includes packing Windows Hosting Packages with as many rich features as possible that you would not normally find included with hosting services from many of our competitors.

Below you can see details of many of the features found in our Windows Hosting Packages and Free ASP.NET Hosting Package.

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Windows 2008 Server R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes many enhancements that make this release the most robust Windows Server Web application platform yet. The Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 platform is ideal for running ASP.NET, Classic ASP, and PHP dynamic database driven websites.
 
World Land Trust Carbon Balanced

Carbon Balanced Hosting

Web Wiz only use use energy efficient green servers ensuring power consumption is kept to a minimum and for those carbon emissions that can not be eliminated we have partnered with The World Land Trust through their Carbon Balanced Program to offset our carbon emissions. More Info>>
   
Isolated Application Pools

Isolated Application Pools

Each website has it's own Dedicated Application Pool placing the website in it's own server process isolated from other websites running on the same server ensuring that your website is secure and available at all times. Each website has 800MB of application pool memory! More Info >>
   
WebsitePanel Control Panel

WebsitePanel Control Panel

Manage all aspects of your hosting account easily through the WebsitePanel Control Panel, instantly setting up websites, e-mail accounts, site statistics, etc. The WebsitePanel Control Panel is the most advanced control panel available for Windows Server. View Demo >>
   
Technical Support

Technical Support

Our friendly technical support are all developers themselves, enabling them to have the knowledge and skills to help instantly with all aspects of your web hosting. Your calls will be answered by a real person empowered to deal with your enquiry.
   

Email


SmarterMail Enterprise Mail Servers

SmarterMail Enterprise 9.x Mail Servers*

Our Mail Servers use SmarterMail Enterprise which delivers Exchange-level mail server features with powerful collaboration tools, such as SmartPhone & Outlook syncrnasion, anti-spam, anti-virus, mailing lists, advanced webmail, RSS news feed integration, event calendars, contact lists, and much more. SmarterMail Enterprise Edition, Online Demo
   
POP 3 Mailboxes

POP3/SMTP/IMAP Mailboxes

Configure up to 5,000* individual, password protected mailboxes which can be accessed using a mail client like Outlook to send and receive email. Also includes Auto Responders, email forwarding, multiple receipt lists, and webmail service.
   
WebMail

Advanced WebMail

Access your mailboxes to configure anti-spam filters or read and send email messages from any computer with Internet access and a web browser. The Web 2.0 based webmail service includes, email composer, spell checking, contacts and events which can be synced with Outlook or PocketPC, and much more. Online Demo
   
Email Virus Scanning

Email Virus Scanning*

Email is scanned by Declude and AVG Virus Scanners for viruses at our Mail Filtering Gateway where viruses are detected and removed before they reach your inbox, a message informing you of this action is then sent to your inbox. Our viruses scanners are updated automatically ensuring that they are constantly up-to-date with the latest virus definitions.
   
Configurable SPAM Filters

Anti-SPAM Filtering*

Email is scanned for SPAM by Declude, CommTouch ZeroHour and SpamAssassin filters at our Mail Filtering Gateway which tag SPAM email with a weighting letting you decide what action to take. You are able to configure SPAM Filters on our servers selecting what action to take with various SPAM weightings, including; take no action, filtering to junk mail folder, or deleting.
   
Greylisting

Greylisting - 97% Efficiency at Blocking SPAM!

All mailboxes come with Greylisting which can effectively stop 97% of SPAM! We employ two methods of Greylisting; Basic which applies Greylisting to ALL email and Advanced, which to prevent delays in receiving email, only applies Greylisting to those emails which do not pass our SPAM Filters. For more information on what Greylisting is and how it works please see Greylisting.org.
   
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Add-on

Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Add-on (Push Connectivity)

Available for mailboxes is the Exchange ActiveSync Add-on which is the only synchronization method that uses direct push technology to automatically provide users with over-the-air access to email and collaboration items, such as contacts and calendars. For those using IPhones, IPads, Andriod, or other mobile or portable devices Exchange ActiveSync is a must.
   
Backup Mail Servers

Off Site Backup Mail Servers (Secondary MX Servers)

In the unlikely event our primary network should become unavailable we also maintain Backup MX Mail Server in a secondary Data Centre which instantly takes over in the event the Primary Mail Servers are unavailable.
   

Development and Features


ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, CGI

ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP, CGI*

Your Windows Hosting account is equipped to run ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET 3.5 SP1, and ASP.NET 2.0, Classic ASP, PHP 5, MSXML, SHTML, and ActivePerl CGI scripts.
   
Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 Framework

New ASP.NET 4 Framework

Web Wiz are proud to be the first UK web hosts to support Microsoft's New ASP.NET 4 Framework with all our Website and Reseller Hosting at no additional costs and is available in Full Trust with both Classic and Integrated Pipeline with the addition of LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft Chart Controls, ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller), Silverlight 4 and much more. More Info >>
   
Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 and ASP.NET 2.0 Framework

ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 and ASP.NET 2 Framework

Microsoft's ASP.NET 3.5 SP1, ASP.NET 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 comes with all our Windows Hosting Packages at no additional costs and is available in Full Trust with both Classic and Integrated Pipeline. More Info >>
   
Components

Components*

Our servers have a number of professional components installed allowing you to extend the abilities of scripting languages. Installed components include; AspUpload, AspJpeg, AspPDF, JMail Professional, CDOSYS, MS XML, IIS7 Rewrite Module. Click here to see a Full List of Installed Components.
   
Sub-Domains

Sub-Domains*

Create sub-domains instantly, for example 'business.yourdomain.com'. Sub-domains worked the same as full websites with their own settings and have full email features.
   
Grpahical Statistics

Website Analytics & SEO Reporting*

Web log analytics and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) reporting provides complete management and control of website statistics and SEO marketing efforts. With Website Reporting and Data Mining, SEO Reporting and Competitor Analysis, and Real Visitor / Spider / Bot Detection. SmarterStats Professional Edition, Online Demo
   
Secure Web Space

SSL Secure Server*

Enable SSL Secure transactions on your sites via our 128bit Secure SSL Server. This is very useful if you wish to run an ecommerce website or wanting to take personal details giving your customers the peace of mind their transactions are secure.
   
Secure Password Protected Folders

Password Protected Secure Folders*

You can choose which users or groups have access to specific areas of your website and to lock it down ensuring only those who have the correct login credentials have access to the protected area and it's contents.
   
Custom Erorr Pages

Customised Error Pages*

Replace the common 'page not found error' and other common error pages with your own custom error messages. Use this to display a site map if a page can not be found encouraging visitors to stay on your site.
   
Static and Dynamic Web Page Compression

Static and Dynamic Web Page Compression

Web Page Compression allows all your web pages to be compressed by as much as 70%, giving faster page download times and reduced bandwidth consumption. We are one of the only web hosts to offer this due to our sparsely populated Intel Quad-Core Xeon servers.
   
Test Domain

Test Domain

While you are waiting for any DNS changes to take effect with your domain name, we provide a pre-propagation test domain to view your website on the live server and make sure everything is working before you move your site.
   

Databases


SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Use Microsoft's top of the line professional database system to create SQL Server 2008 R2 databases, for use in your websites applications. We use dedicated Intel Quad-Core Xeon 64 bit database servers with RAID 10 Storage for fast performance and reliability. Highly Available Servers with Failover Clustering improves service uptime. More Info >>
   
SQL Server 2008 Tools

Microsoft SQL Server Management Tools*

Included with your hosting plan is a range of web-based SQL Server Management Tools that allow you to Manage, Backup, Restore, and Transfer databases online in real-time. Together with your SQL Server Database is storage space on our Backup File Server for storing multiple backups of your databases. More Info >>
   
mySQL Databases

mySQL 5.5

mySQL 5.5 is the world's most popular open source database system, with outstanding performance and proven reliability. Your mySQL databases would be housed on dedicated Intel Quad-Core Xeon 64 bit database servers, freeing processor and memory of resource-hungry web server software.
   
Access

Access

Included in all plans, use an unlimited number of Access databases with your websites applications, allowing dynamic database driven websites.
   

Connectivity, Backups and Security


Secure Data Centre

Secure Data Centre

Web Wiz operate from a Secure Tier 2 Data Centre located here in Poole, Dorset, on the South Coast of the UK. The purpose built state of the art facility, completed in January 210, offers excellent security, resilience and diverse connectivity. More Info >>
   
Highly Available Servers with Failover Clustering

High Availability Failover Hosting

Web Wiz Failover Clusters allow Servers to automatically failover to Passive Cluster Nodes (redundant servers) in the event of hardware failure, maintenance or upgrades. Servers can be Live Migrated between Clustered Nodes if they require extra resources without any downtime to services. More Info >>
   
Multiple Internet Connections with High Availability

Multiple Internet Connections with High Availability

Web Wiz utilise two Tier 2 Multihomed Internet Connections to our core Gigabyte Network configured in High Availability. In the event that our systems detect loss of functionality or network-layer connectivity our failover systems will immediately become active and traffic will be re-routed to our network.
   
Full Nightly Backups

Full Nightly Backups

Full backups are made of our servers each night to our fast Storage Servers with all backup data mirrored on separate harddrives for extreme redundancy. Should you accidentally delete any files or databases we can roll-back your entire site or individual files and databases. More Info >>
   
365/24/7

365/24/7 Network & Server Monitoring

Our network, servers, and services are constantly monitored from external monitoring systems. In the event that the monitoring stations detect a problem our technicians are alerted immediately and can begin work resolving the issue within minutes. View Live Monitor Feed.
   
Hardware Firewall

Multiple Hardware Firewall's

All customer data is protected by state of the art corporate hardware firewalls configured in high availability failover for redundancy to protect against hackers, denial of services attacks, viruses, etc. Keeping your website, databases, email, and data safe from malicious attacks.
   
Backup UPS and Generators

Backup UPS and Generators

All our servers are protected against power outages by N+1 UPS and 6500BHP diesel engine backup generators specifically designed for use in national grid stations.
   
StorageVault Service

StorageVault Service

Our StorageVault Service is available for free to all our Hosting Customers. The StorageVault Service allows you to backup your own personal documents, precious images, and files to to our secure online file storage servers. More Info>>
   

Uptime Guarantee and Money Back Guarantee


SLA

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

Thanks to our Teir 2 multiple Internet connections with failover, redundant backup servers, UPS, backup generators, 24/7 monitoring, and 24/7 engineers, we are able to offer a 99.9% Uptime Guarantee.** More Info>>
Money Back

30 Day Money Back Guarantee

We are so confident in our services we now offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee on all of our web hosting plans.** More Info>>


Windows 2008 Server R2 IIS 7.5, HP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, SQL Server 2008 R2, mySQL, PHP, SmarterTools, SmarterMail, SmarterStats


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