Registering a domain name and web hosting plan via UK Web Host is done in 5 easy steps. Click here to view a demo of the registration process.

Orders are usually set up within the hour during normal business hours (9am - 5pm / GMT / Mon - Fri).

You can monitor your bandwidth usage from within your web hosting control panel. If you do happen to reach your bandwidth limit, or go over it, we will inform you via email and give you the opportunity to upgrade your account. Upgrading of accounts are seamless and will not result in any downtime. Alternatively to upgrading your account additional bandwidth can be ordered at 0.86p pm (paid annually £10.32) per 1 Gigabyte of Data Transfer from your control panel. Price exc. VAT

We can register your .co.uk, .me.uk or .org.uk for £4.25 per year exc. VAT. .com, .net, .org, .biz or .info domains for £8.50 per year exc. VAT. All UK domains names are registered for a minimum of 2 years.

You will be billed annually, and reminded of renewal two months, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week and 1 day prior to expiry. All renewals can be paid online via debit/credit card or paypal.

The UK Web Host Control Panel gives you access to a secure area where you can read your email on-line from anywhere in the world. You will also have the ability to install a variety of web hosting statistics which will help you keep track of visitors to your website. Other great features include - edit and manage your files, install scripts to make your web site more interactive, monitor your bandwidth and disk usage, setup additional email addresses and much more. Click here to view a demo of the UK Web Host control panel. Please note certain features are disabled and not all scripts are installed in the demo control panel.

Instructions of how to access your web hosting control panel will be sent to you on completion of purchasing a web hosting plan with us. If you are already a customer with us you can access your control panel via the CUSTOMER LOGIN at the very top right of the page.

Yes, two great packages, Webalizer Graphical Statistics and AWStats Graphical Statistics are both installable from the UK Web Host control panel. Advanced Graphical and Text Counters are available too. Click here to view a demo of the UK Web Host control panel. Please note certain features are disabled and not all scripts are installed in the demo control panel.

Yes, the UK Web Host Control Panel gives you access to a secure area where you can read your email on-line from anywhere in the world. The WebMail service gives you the ability to read/reply to emails online, it also includes a built in calendar and task organiser - all at no extra cost!

When you use FTP or a file manager to upload your files please make sure you put your files into the public_html directory. Files in your public_html directory can then be accessed on the internet.

For example if I upload contactme.html to public_html for mydomain.com you could access that file at www.mydomain.com/contactme.html. Files not inside the folder public_html will not be available on the Internet.

Perl v5.8.5 with Crypt::SSLeay module v0.51

You can use different versions of PHP by changing the extension on the script in question. To use PHP4 with a script, leave its extension as .php. If you want to use PHP5 with a script, change the extension to .php5.

If you wish to default all .php scripts in your hosting space to use PHP5, but do not want to change the extension, place this line into a .htaccess file in your FTP space.

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

MySQL v5.0.26

/usr/bin/perl

You can also find information on paths to other useful programs by logging in to your UK Web Host Control Panel and selecting 'Website Diagnostics', from there just select 'Paths and Versions'.

Note that if you are writing CGI scripts in Perl, the first line of the script should be the path to perl, prefixed with '#!', i.e., '#!/usr/bin/perl'.

At UK Web Host in order for us to provide the highest levels of support and functionality, we exclusively use Linux based servers with ASP support provided using Sun ONE ASP (also known as Chilisoft ASP). As such, Windows® based ASP components, ASP.NET (and .NET2) are not supported at present. If you do require any of these you will require a Windows hosting environment.

Should you need the absolute path to sendmail for use in a CGI script, it's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. You can also find information on paths to other useful programs by logging in to your UK Web Host Control Panel and selecting 'Website Diagnostics', from there just select 'Paths and Versions'.