Protec provided all that I would expect in terms of reliability, services, etc, but I have been impressed mostly by the level of service - nothing is too much trouble for their support team and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Protec provides
industry leading semi-dedicated web hosting solutions powered by Windows
2003 Server. Our semi-dedicated plan is suitable for websites that require more power and bandwidth than a standard shared hosting account. Protec's web hosting control panel gives you
instant management of your hosting plan.
See below for the vast amount of features included.
NEW WEB HOSTING FEATURES ADDED !
We have added lots of new features to all hosting and reseller plans. A summary of just some of the new features available is below:
Huge Reseller Plan Increases. More Bandwidth, Disk Space and more.
All web hosting and reseller hosting plans are currently available for £1.00 for the first month. That means you can sign up now for a months web hosting and pay just £1.00. Cancel your account anytime within the month and you pay nothing else.
What is Semi-Dedicated?
Protec's Semi-Dedicated hosting plans are designed for busy websites that have outgrown a shared hosting account but do not quite require the power of a dedicated server. With a maximum of 15 websites hosted on each state-of-the-art server you can be assured your that your high traffic or resource intensive website is lightening fast and has the CPU and RAM resources available that your site requires.
As the service is technically managed like a shared hosting plan you can concentrate on running your website and business and no technical knowledge of running a server is required. We work with each semi-dedicated client to ensure any custom configurations required are setup and that your web site and applications are tuned for optimum performance.
SEMI-DEDICATED HOSTING PLAN
Maximum of 15 web sites / clients per server
5000 MB Disk Space
300 GB Monthly Data Transfer
250 POP3 Email Accounts
Unlimited Domain Aliases
Shared SSL
2 x 500 MB SQL Server Databases
4 x 150 MB MySQL Databases
URL Security
Minimum server specification Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon, 4GB RAM, SCSI / RAID hard drives. All servers supplied by Dell.
Everything listed below
£99.00/month
Semi-Dedicated Features
Personal Control Panel - Click here for more information and a live demo You can control every aspect of your hosting account securely from any internet connected pc anywhere in the world no matter what level you are.
Web Site Statistics
All accounts come with comprehensive statistics allowing you to track every aspect of your web site traffic.
POP3 and SMTP
Full POP3 and SMTP Email facilities with all accounts. Setup your accounts in real time and access them from your desktop software or webmail. Unlimited Email forwarding accounts and Auto Responders.
Advanced Webmail
Our webmail system includes a huge amount of features and functionality including: Address book, Content Filtering, PDA Interface, Spell Checker and much more.
Email Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Protection
All Email accounts include Anti-Virus protection at the server level for your protection. Anti-Spam protection is also available.
FTP Accounts
10 FTP accounts included with the Semi-Dedicated plan. You can set these up and configure read/write access and locations within your control panel.
Advanced Scripting Support
Specialising in web site scripting technologies our hosting plans are ideal for web developers. We support ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, XML, CGI, MySQL, MS SQL Server and more. We also provide 35 + commercial components. See below for the full list.
Microsoft Access, MS SQL Server 2000 and MySQL 5
Host unlimited MS Access databases on all plans, MySQL comes with all plans and add MS SQL Server to any plan if it's not included already. Unlimited DSN's and Data Sources.
Microsoft Frontpage Extensions
MS Frontpage Extensions come as standard with all hosting plans. Simply enable them within your control panel and you have full Front page compatibility.
Windows Media & Real Audio/Video
Use the MMS or RTPS protocols to link to and stream your files to enhance your web site with streaming media.
Quality Technical Support
Full technical support provided by engineers and developers is included for free with all accounts. Telephone and Email support available with fast response times. Also a comprehensive support area and knowledge base.
Daily Data Backups
All web site and database data is backed up on a daily basis with various schedules kept in case of data loss. Clients may request restores of web site or database data.
Scripting Support Included On All Web Hosting Plans