Managed Website Hosting Bristol
At Priority Pixels we have a team of website developers who have years of experience supporting, maintaining and backing up websites for clients. We have worked with a vast amount of clients in Bristol and across the UK all ranging in size. No matter if you’re a multi-million pound company or an entrepreneur our professional website hosting in Bristol can help keep your website safe.
Many business owners struggle to find the time to maintain their website effectively, which can lead to a range of complications. They may have a website that regularly goes down, gets hacked or is too slow. This is where we can help. Our website support and maintenance service will ensure your website is always running at its optimum and provides a safe and secure platform for your customers. With regular back ups, security monitoring and maintenance servicing, your website is in safe hands.
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Managed Hosting
If you aren’t happy with your current hosting provider then it may be worth moving your website to one of Priority Pixel's cloud servers. Our website hosting boasts the latest speed technologies that make websites load faster: NGINX-based caching, SSD-drives, PHP 8, CDN, HTTP/2. Once your website is hosted with us our web developers will be able to tailor the hosting environment to ensure your website runs at its best.
Automatic Backups
Regular backups should be the norm for all websites. By creating regular backups of your website's files and data, we can make sure your website is returned to a normal state should something go wrong. We offer website backups that are stored securely in the cloud. This means we are only ever one click away from restoring your website back to its last known working version.
Website Migration
If you have an existing website but aren’t happy with your current web hosting service, we would be delighted to assist you. For any client wishing to move their website hosting to Priority Pixels, we offer a free migration service. All we need is access to your current website. Our web developers can usually migrate a website within 24 hours.
Our Hosting Infrastructure
Priority Pixels have put in place a resilient and reliable hosting infrastructure that runs on renewable energy. Secure and reliable hosting is essential for all websites but more importantly, we need to confidently provide the same high level of support and peace of mind for our clients.
Hosting our client’s websites has been part of our package of services since we began and it’s an area we understand well. Our carbon neutral web hosting packages have earned our agency a reputation for reliable, secure and environmentally friendly web hosting.
As we build each site we go through several phases of essential testing and improvement. When ready, the secure reliability of our servers allows us to move from the temporary development site to a live and fully functioning one quickly and seamlessly.
Our team constantly monitor servers, keeping up to speed with any changes in performance. With our fully managed hosting service, you can be confident that your site is in safe hands from the moment it goes live. Our comprehensive and ongoing support means that we’re on hand for advice and guidance whenever you need it – and our pledge to provide businesses with carbon neutral web hosting means you won’t have to worry about your website having a negative impact of the planet.
Carbon Neutral Web Hosting
Priority Pixels host a wide-range of different websites for our clients. In recent years, we’ve realised just how sizeable a carbon footprint that creates and that’s why carbon neutral web hosting was the only way forward for our agency.
There is no denying the environmental impact of the internet. 3.7% of the world’s total carbon emissions are generated by the internet and the infrastructure, networks and systems supporting it. The internet also produces 50% more carbon than the aviation industry and over a billion tons of CO2 every year.
For the digital marketing industry, which is wholly reliant on the world wide web, that impact is tenfold. Every line of code we write, every visually immersive infographic we create, every sentence of copy we draft and every email conversation we have, demands electricity. What’s more, there are also the servers, data centres and networks that require power to continue operating – and even more to keep those systems cool and running efficiently.
Switching to carbon neutral web hosting means we rely on data centres that run on renewable energy. As a result, we’ve drastically reduced our own carbon footprint, as well as the carbon footprint of the many businesses and organisations we support through our web hosting services. It may seem small, but every step we take makes a difference as we forge a greener path forward.
FAQs
What is website hosting?
Website hosting is where on the internet your website lives. For your website to appear on the internet it needs to be uploaded to a server. Servers are high-tech computers storing all the components that make up a website, such as HTML documents, CSS stylesheets, and images. These servers are connected to the internet so when someone enters a search query into an internet browser, such as Google Chrome, that browser will then connect to various servers to find websites that contain information relevant to the search query.
Think of hosting as finding a house for your website to live in. You need to move all the building blocks of your website to a secure server so that when someone wants to visit, i.e. types your website into Google, browsers will know where to find you.
How to transfer website hosting?
If you feel that you are not getting the hosting services that your website needs, you can transfer to a different website hosting provider. Transferring your website to a different hosting server can be a tricky process, depending on how complex your website is. Most websites involve content management systems and complex databases as well as the files that hold the code. All these files and data need to be transferred in a way that allows your website to continue working as normal so that any visitors to your website will not know that anything has changed.
If you would like to transfer your website hosting, please get in contact and speak to a member of our team to discuss your options.
What is managed website hosting?
Managed website hosting is when someone else manages the server that your website is on for you. This is usually taken care of by a dedicated and trained individual, allowing for regular updates and maintenance, security, monitoring activity, and backing up your website.
Hiring a website hosting service provider to manage your hosting environment will ensure that your website is fully secure twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. If anything were to happen to your website, they will be able to restore it to its original state by performing regular backups. Maintenance and updates will help your website run as smoothly as possible so that your customers get the best experience when using your website.
How much should website hosting cost?
How much your website hosting costs completely depends on the type of hosting you choose and which service provider you use. Most web hosting companies will charge you a monthly or annual fee to use their servers for your website.
Shared hosting is the cheapest option as you are sharing a server with other websites. You only pay for a small portion of it, rather than renting the whole thing. Dedicated website hosting is the most expensive type of hosting as you are renting the whole server just for your website, so there are no other companies to split the cost with. The cost of cloud hosting can depend on how many servers you need to rent and what resources you need to keep your website functioning at its optimum.
Most website hosting providers offer the option of managed website hosting in their monthly or annual fees. This will take the hassle away from you of having to keep your website updated and running at its optimum.
Before deciding on your website hosting service provider, make sure that what you are paying for is right for your website.
What is shared website hosting?
Shared website hosting means that your website shares its server with other websites. This is usually a cheaper option when comparing the types of website hosting, as you are only paying for a small portion of one server and splitting the cost of the whole server with other companies who are sharing your space.
Whilst this is a cheaper option, it does mean that your website will have to compete with other websites for resources. This could impact your page loading speed and your uptime. Having to compete with other websites for the same resources could impact that experience that visitors to your website have. Shared website hosting is not usually recommended for a website with a high traffic rate as your website may not be able to function as properly as it should.
Even though you are sharing a server with other websites, you will not have access to their files, and vice versa.
What is cloud website hosting?
Cloud website hosting means that your website is hosted on more than one web server. It also means that your website information and data is stored virtually rather than in a physical server.
By using resources from various servers, if one of the servers is down or at maximum capacity, another server can take over. This allows your website to stay up and running online as smoothly as possible for your customers. Using a cloud-based server can also help to increase your loading speed as you are not relying on just one server that is also trying to load multiple other websites. The different servers that your website is stored on will all be able to help load your website faster.
With most cloud-based website hosting solutions, you only pay for what you need. If you see a rise in traffic to your website, you can increase your resources. This stops you paying for a bigger hosting package that may include resources that you do not need, just to get access to the ones that you do.
What is the best website hosting service?
The answer to this completely depends on your website and the resources you need to keep it running at its optimum. If you have a simple one-page website with low traffic rates, shared hosting will probably be the best option for you. This is because you will not need as many resources as a multi-page, more complex website that gets more traffic.
If, and when, your website grows, you can always transfer your website hosting to a different service that meets the new needs of your website. Choosing the best website hosting service for your website also depends on cost. If you want someone to look after your hosting for you, then managed website hosting should be an option that you consider. Researching to find the best website hosting services for your website will help you get the most out of your money and keep your website optimised and running smoothly.
Why is carbon neutral web hosting important?
The internet, as well as the systems, networks and servers that support it, have a huge carbon footprint. 3.7% of total carbon emissions emitted worldwide are generated by the internet. It also produces 50% more carbon than the aviation industry and releases over a billion tons of CO2 into our atmosphere every year. As carbon neutral web hosting is wholly reliant on renewable energy, switching over to a greener web hosting service can reduce the carbon footprint of both your website and your business.
For more information about our web hosting services, please get in touch with Priority Pixels today. We would be delighted to assist you.
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