CatN Hosting for Beginners

By Joe Gardiner Friday, 15th October 2010

Let’s imagine a USB thumb drive. You’ve probably used one, and you can just plug it into your computer and copy files onto it. The great thing about a usb thumb drive is that you can carry it with you and you can view your files on a computer anywhere as long as you have the thumb drive with you.

Now imagine all the files that make up your website are on that thumb drive and instead of carrying it around with you, you give it to a company who plug it into one of their powerful computers that is connected to the internet. Now you can view your website files from anywhere as long as you’re connected to the internet.

This internet connection from the hosting company is really fast, or it should be! The hosting company send lots of reminders over the internet telling other big networks like Virgin Media and BT the best route to take over the internet to find your website really quickly every time. So all the users at home who buy internet from BT will be told the fastest route to find your site!

So now your website files are stored by this hosting company, it is using parts of their system, like storage for the files, and the internet connection to your site. This is what they charge you for which seems fair right?

Well sometimes it’s unfair, and these companies will ask you to pay for using parts of their system up front before you’ve used them. Even worse if you use more than you paid for they charge you really unfairly, like going overdrawn at your bank, you get big bank charges.

Unlike a Gas bill or bank charges you can view your running total bill at any point in the CatN Control Panel, instead of getting a nasty surprise at the end of the month.

These days a lot of websites are built using systems that make adding new text or images really easy, letting normal users make changes to a website without learning how to program. These management systems will be written in a particular programming language, like php, and as you can imagine are really popular.

A small one off payment to move your website to one of these management systems is a great investment and lets you store your website on a system that’s really cheap to run, meaning your hosting costs less. Even better, your site is really cheap to update and you can do it yourself with no special training.

At CatN we specialise in hosting normal websites and websites that use these php management systems with our really quick internet connections that never go down. We charge a small base package that actually encourages you to use our system, making it really easy for your website to grow with your business, and if you go over your allowance of storage our overage charges are very small.

We charge fairly for using parts of our system, and if you get stuck we promise to get back to you in at least 2 hours, and we dont charge you any extra. You can call us, email us, or instant message us and we’ll help you out for no extra cost at all.

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