Special Offers!

FREE Domain Name Registration:

We are offering FREE domain names with all our hosting packages (.co.uk, .org.uk or .me.uk). We do offer other domain suffixes and you can purchase these at an amazingly competitive price too.

No hidden charges:

We do not charge VAT so don't expect a sting in the tail when you get to the end of the signup process, the price you see is the price you pay, or even sometimes less during promotional periods.

No setup fees:

Again, the price you see is the price you pay (or less) we're not going to add on an any extortionate and usually unnecessary hidden charges.

General Features

Instant account activation:

Register with us, and as soon as payment is confirmed you'll be sent a link to activate your account IMMEDIATELY. Since domain registration can take several hours (for all providers) we'll even give you some temporary addresses so that you can upload and test your site, whilst you're waiting.

A Generous 750MB of web space hosted in the UK!

The data centre used by ZiHost is constantly upgrading servers to ensure that your site is running on some of the newest hardware around.

10 Sub-domains:

Add sub-domains to your account for an easy way to get to specific areas of your site.

Account Control Panel:

The ZiHost control panel gives you ultimate control over you account, this is where you can manage your account adding extra features and controlling the ones you already have.

99.9% uptime:

We guarantee 99.9% uptime on all hosting packages.

SSI (Server side includes):

This allows you to easily add information to you HTML website, to include information like the current date on to pages.

Mirrored back up:

As well as this, all data is stored in two large network disk arrays. Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime.

Google Site Map:

Having your website listed in Google is vital. Google has a special tool called Google Sitemaps which generates a list of all the files on your website and sends them to Google. This allows Google to ensure it finds all of your web pages and files. The software to generate a Sitemap is quite complicated but we have made it easy!

Graphical Site Statistics:

Have you ever hosted with a provider whose idea of web statistics is to only give you a copy of the server log? We're offering a powerful and feature-ful tool that generates advanced web server statistics, graphically.

Domain Ownership and FREE transfer away:

Unlike some of our rivals, we allow you to own your domain name, it's yours and you're even free to take it away from us and use it with another provider without any administration fees.

24/7 FTP access:

Our FTP servers are available any day, any time, right round the clock.

Additional FTP Users:

A feature rarely offered by hosting providers, but ZiHost doesn't like to let people down. This excellent feature is perfect for business users and allows you to create additional users for your FTP server and direct them to specific sub directories of your site.

Web-based FTP:

If you don't like installing and configuring FTP software on your system, we have provided an online FTP service directly from your control panel, where you can maintain your site easily.

Unrestricted FTP Access:

Lots of companies restrict FTP access to customers using their Internet access services, but with us, if you have access to the Internet then you should be able to access our servers.

FrontPage Basic Support:

If you use Microsoft FrontPage to develop your sites, then you need Front Page Extensions installed, no need to call us, you can do this directly from your control panel.

Email

15 POP3 e-mail account:

A POP3 mail box stores e-mails on the web securely until you are ready to read them. Collect e-mails securely via your e-mail program (i.e. Outlook Express) using the POP3 e-mail box provided.

Junk mail / Spam Filter:

Junk mail filters use special technology to strip out junk mail before you receive it. This feature also allows you set an address to send the junk mail to so that you can check this address to ensure only junk mail is being caught.

Webmail:

On the move? You can access your email easily from our webmail interface or as we like to call it: ZiMail.

Catch all e-mail:

Never miss an email sent to your domain, you can collect email which is destined for any address on your domain (e.g. anything@yourdomain.co.uk).

15 Email Forwarders:

If you don't want to configure another email address in outlook, you can forward email from your site to your existing email address.

15 Email Autoresponders:

This feature allows an email address on your account to automatically respond with a specific message.

General Scripting and Other Features

Perl Support:

CGI and Perl are fully supported.

PHP 4 or 5 scripting support:

PHP is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language. PHP is ideal for the creation of dynamic data driven web sites. PHP is fully enabled on all of our packages

CGI-BIN installed:

A CGI-BIN has been added to your account so that you can install and use your own custom scripts, we provide some for free from our control panel to get you started, and you can find many more all over the web.

Shell Access via SSH:

This is particularly useful for advanced users because you can administer your account directly from the terminal prompt using SSH.

5 MySQL Databases:

MySQL databases allow you to store important information in a format that can easily be read by other programs and systems. You can use MySQL databases to store customer information or as the backend for a shopping cart system.

phpMyAdmin:

You can also manage your database by using phpMyAdmin, an easy to use web based interface for managing MySQL databases.