Website Hosting UK

At WebsiteDesignWestMidlands.net we provide a hosting facility at an affordable price, but is is only available to the websites we build ourselves. Unless you are intending to employ IT staff, we presume that you do not want to spend time maintaining your website, but to get on with running your business. Part of our service is to relieve you of time spent administering your new website, so we carry out any day to day maintenance and ensure that your website is operating 24/7.

Website Hosting UK – Hostgator & Linux Web Hosting

Our websites are hosted on Linux Servers by Hostgator, one of the world's top 10 largest web hosting companies, with more than 1,300,000 million hosted domains. Technical support is provided by in excess of 200 employees 24 hour a day. They guarantee 99.9% uptime. They are the perfect solution for personal, business, or Fortune 500 hosting.

We charge £72.00 + vat each year or £6 + vat. per month, payable by standing order.

Website Hosting UK - Linux Web Hosting - origins and history

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the 'Linux kernel'. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL and other free licenses.

The Unix operating system was conceived and implemented in the 1960s and first released in 1970. Its wide availability and portability meant that it was widely adopted, copied and modified by academic institutions and businesses, with its design being influential on authors of other systems.

Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers as in the case of Hostgator, although it is also installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from embedded devices and mobile phones to supercomputers. The popularity of Linux distributions as desktop and laptop operating system has grown due to the popularity of netbooks.

The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The rest of the system, including utilities and libraries, usually comes from the GNU operating system announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. The GNU contribution is the basis for the alternative name GNU/Linux.

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