Good webhosting starts with a Z...

For too many, shared accounts are seen as little better than the hosting equivalent of tinker toys - amusing playthings, but not suitable work vehicles.

The Positive Internet Company's Z Account, on the other hand, means business. Thousands of customers rely on them to run showcase sites, e-commerce systems and rich database-driven ventures.

Each Z Account lives on a server exquisitely tuned by Positive Internet's GNU/Linux experts to ensure a feature-set, uptime, throughput, reliability and security that astonishes even our best competition.

Java Servlets and JSP are available as standard; there are no punitive proscribed bandwidth limits; our promise to reply to any support query within three working hours is unparalleled. As such, Z lets you ramp up your web applications to levels where you can comfortably upgrade to one of Positive Internet's dedicated or managed services without having to panic about their being sliced off just as they begin to bloom.

"It has been great dealing with a company that lives up to its advertising - you ARE good!" Mark Reeves, Cambridge Media Lab

We know that a properly supported service is crucial. This is why we promise that, during working hours, no Email will take longer than three hours to receive a considered response - from a human. Our support forums allow for discussion and support in a wide range of areas. There are no "no go" support questions with us.

Our backbone provider includes full LINX peering, redundancy and massive throughput. Many web-hosting services stuff all their virtual-servers down a 256k line. Not us! You can be assured your web pages will be delivered to your visitors at top speed.

A full 120 mb of storage is yours to use as you wish, for your web site, database, mailboxes and whatever else you want to do. Nominally this is split 100MB for your web pages and 20 MB for your mail, but you may organise this as you wish.

Some webspace providers don't even mention in the small-print how limited their maintenance facilities are. Well, with us you not only get full, live FTP access, but you also get a full Unix shell account with all the programs and facilities you'd expect with it accessible via SSH.

With your account you get a full POP3 server. Create as many POP3 accounts as you desire, which can be used with any mail package, such as Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger and Eudora. You control your mailboxes and their settings for all mail on your domain via our user-friendly web-based admin system. Try our Demonstration Page (Log in with username: demo - password: demo.

Set up addresses such as sales@yourdomain.com and info@yourdomain.com to point to your mailbox. Or maybe forward to another completely. It's all under your control with our own web-based administrator. Unlike some providers, we do not place any arbitrary limits on the amount of mail addresses you can use or the amount of mailboxes and mail forwarding redirects that you set up.

For your web backend, we provide the lightning fast, popular SQL database, MySQL. Write stock, product ordering and record keeping systems that can be managed from your desktop via ODBC and linked directly to database software such as Microsoft Access!

Unlike many web hosts, we do not put some arbitrary limit on how many hits you achieve and how much data can be transferred from your site in any given time period. We'll be much more sympathetic and pragmatic than other providers - and with our generous bandwidth, you shouldn't feel the pinch any time soon.

Full CGI bin access, with mod_perl available for even faster execution. SSI means you can include scripts in your normal HTML pages. Perl's DBI modules allow you to speak to the MySQL database and more. The "suExec" patch on our servers means that, unlike many other providers, you and only you can see your scripts - other subscribers can't poke their noses into your affairs.

We certainly don't skimp when it comes to the most popular CGI scripting language: all the flavours of Perl and all of the popular modules are available for immediate use. ePerl lets you embed Perl in your webpages, and mod_perl lets you run your server-side scripts at lightning speeds

The full range of languages is available for your immediate use. Compile programs, development tools and more. Use the PHP4 language for sophisticated web to database integration.

We provide full statistics with our accounts - information about which pages are most popular, who visits most often, what times of the day your site gets the most hits and so forth is just a click away.

Our servers are in a secure machine room and are monitored and maintained 24 hours a day, with pager warnings should anything go amiss. We aim for and consistently achieve at least 99.5% uptime. All our servers are backed up nightly to remote systems for added peace of mind.

An Uninteruptable Power Supply with backup generator ensures that even in a mains electricity glitch or cut, our servers will keep on running.

Because we also run an SSL secure server, you can provide an e-commerce solution secure in the knowledge that your customer's data is protected with industrial-strength encryption (note: this service costs an extra £50+vat per year).

£250
(ex VAT p.a.)
Accounts set up within 24 hours
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