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Gloucestershire Web Hosting , who maintain this site are offering 3 months free web hosting to any Gloucester company who either transfers their hosting to us, or starts a new site, between now and Christmas.

Please quote Offer GLTWHO952

We have now finished our server upgrades, and we are now running the latest versions of Plesk, php and mysql

We now offer special monitoring services for those with mission critical web sites:

URL Monitoring

HOW IT WORKS

Retrieve a selected URL, checking for multiple strings of text within the page to ensure your site’s availability and to ensure that content has not been changed without authorization.

The given content cannot span over a line break and cannot be more than 5 consecutive words. We ask that you please provide us with static content as dynamic content cannot be used for this type of monitor. Also, the monitoring device will search for the given content in all parts of the source code; header, footer and body. Please keep this in mind when specifying a content check.

We strongly recommend NOT searching for the content “OK” with this type of monitor.

Please provide us with a working URL and a content string of up to five words within the page that should be verified.

Example:

https://example.com/loginpage.com

(Check for content: Welcome to the Login Page)

IMPORTANT – Before monitoring is enabled, we ask that you provide us with detailed emergency instructions as to how you would like us to respond to an outage or failure. Also, please provide a list of primary and secondary emergency contacts in case of such an event. These contacts will be recipients for any Rackwatch related ticket notifications. We must have the contacts and emergency instructions on file before any monitors are deployed.

To assist you in writing these, here are some questions you can answer:

1. Would you like us to troubleshoot the issue or just notify you?

2. Would you like us to work on it for a certain amount of time before we do contact you?

3. Specific troubleshooting instructions (such as custom scripts or what to do for a specific error)

4. A set of primary and secondary contact numbers. Emails will be created when a ticket is created, please ensure that the email you want to be contacted on are listed as technical contacts for the account.

URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring. £40.00 per month each (5-steps or less).

A script of up to five steps through your website that simulates how a typical user interaction transpires. These scripts are repeated every ten minutes and triggers an alert if any of these five steps cannot be completed. For example, if a customer goes to a website but cannot complete the process of adding a product to the site’s shopping cart, this would trigger an alert. URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring gives you the piece of mind that your website is functioning properly at all times.

We install free wordpress blogs with several themes we have written on every hosting pack. The technology has improved so much that now, you can set up a whole web site that you can maintain yourself. Here are a few examples:

http://www.gloucesterghostwalks.co.uk/

http://www.talented-force.com/

http://www.gloucesterlawcentre.co.uk/

We are frequently asked if we can provide Password Protected Folders with our web hosting . The answer is , yes, it is there by default in your control panel.

You can password protect any folder, and add as many different users as you want.

At SoftData, we value your data at least as much as you, which is why we back up every single site we host every day. Should you ever have a problem with your web site we can have yesterdays site up and live within 2 hours of being asked.