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Web Space (3000Mb)
Webspace is where your web pages and the items associated with them such as images and sounds are stored.

Monthly data transfer (6000Mb)
Every time someone visits your website they will use some of your bandwidth allowance.

For example if one of your web pages is 10 kilobytes in size (KB) and the images that are on that page are 90 KB then if someone visits your page they will use 100 KB of data.

Your bandwidth allowance is in megabytes (MB), there are 1024 KB in 1 MB.

Birch Hosting Support
You have total control
You have total control over your website hosting and domains in our advanced control panel. From your customer centre, and website hosting panel (Bpanel 2.0) you can control every aspect of your hosting. You also have a domain control panel, this enables you to control DNS ownership details etc, as you own the domain at BirchHosting. Domains are very easy to transfer out (we don't charge) and transfer in .uk are free. You can also transfer to another BirchHosting customer with ease.

Detailed online help
We have an extensive support database in the customer section of the site. This covers all frequently asked questions. However if you can find it there we are always here to help. Email support form your domain panel has 24/7 support, we will get most problems resolved within 2 hours.

Pricing (£14.99)
We have the following payment options available

* Monthly Payment £1.87
* Quarterly Payment £4.87
* Yearly Payment £14.99

Free .UK Transfer
Domain Transfer Included
That's right!!! you can transfer the following domains to BirchHosting for free
* .co.uk
* .me.uk
* .org.uk

The free trial is back

Free Trial
We are that confident that you will be happy with our hosting, we are giving away 1 months free hosting (excludes Developer Plan) before you buy.

What is the catch?
None at all. To take up this offer you need a domain and it needs to be pointed to our nameservers, for it all to work, that's all!
* ns1.birchhosting.co.uk
* ns2.birchhosting.co.uk
No money or credit card is needed for this trial, only 1 trial can be taken per customer

What if I don't have a domain?
You can register one, if you register one from us when you take out your hosting package after the trial, we will deduct the cost of the registration, from your yearly hosting if the plan you pick has a free domain on signup.

What happens to the domain if choose not to continue?
If you registered the domain with us it remains yours, so you can transfer out, or use the domain control panel to point the dns to another hosting company. We don't charge for transferring domains out of BirchHosting

How do I apply?
Go through the order process if you already have a domain and your going to point it to our nameservers strart your signup here and enter your domain in option 2 as we need to put the domain reference in our system. Then when in the order process select the Linux or Windows Free Trial. Then once registered in the customer centre follow the following steps * Click on the Contact Support * In the Subject select Free Trial * Service Select General * Body please enter your domain name and the package you would like to trial This was an automated process, unfortunatly we have had to suspend due to abuse. Once our team have confirmed your details we will activate the free trial or your choice.

What if i don't want to continue the hosting?

We would be surprised if you didn't as you will be hosting with world class servers, and support.
However if our plans don't fit your needs, all we ask is that you email us and let us know you don't want to continue.

PHP 4 and PHP5
Full support including the most commonly used modules for Perl, PHP and Python. View a list of the Perl and PHP modules installed on your web hosting server. View a list of the paths to common programs and see their relevant version number.

Perl
Full support including the most commonly used modules for Perl, PHP and Python. View a list of the Perl and PHP modules installed on your web hosting server. View a list of the paths to common programs and see their relevant version number. Validate the quality of your Perl using this handy script checker.

Python
Full support including the most commonly used modules for Perl, PHP and Python.

Miva
Miva Empressa scripts language supported as standard.

Real Audio

Sun ONE ASP (Chili!Soft ASP)
Sun ONE ASP (Chili!Soft ASP) allows you to use the Microsoft ASP programming language on Linux.

Massive CGI PHP Script Library
Joomla! CMS 1.0 & 1.5
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

WordPress Blog
WordPress is a publishing system that allows you to easily create a complex blog, or web log, on your site. Written in PHP and supported by a MySQL database, WordPress offers intuitive administrative tools and sophisticated design features that make it easy to develop and integrate a personal or professional blog on your site.

phpBB 2 & 3
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.

CMS Made Simple
CMS Made Simple helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding and allowing your clients to update their own sites with a minimum of fuss.

Drupal Content Management System
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users easily to publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Coppermine Photo Gallery
Coppermine is an online picture gallery with loads of great features, you can customise Coppermine to fit into your website.

RoundCube
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.

Gallery
Share your pictures with others or view them over the internet. Upload your pictures while on holiday so you can take more. Create groups of people who can see different sets of pictures eg you might let your football team see pictures from matches etc.

Squirrel Mail
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

Nucleus Weblog
Nucleus offers you the building blocks you need to create a web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.

Free For All Links Page
This feature allows visitors to your site to add a link back to their website.

Website Search
This feature allows you to have a search box on your website to help visitors find the web page that they need.

Guestbook
This feature allows your visitors to leave their name, email address and some comments about your website.

Java Clock
This feature enables you to install a Java clock for use on your website

Internet Countdown
This feature allows you to have a countdown to a specific date on your web page.

Random Text Displayer
This feature allows different pieces of text to be displayed each time a web page is loaded.

Random Images Displayer
This feature allows you to show a random image in any web page from a store of images you specify.

Tell-A-Friend
Our tell-a-friend feature allows people visiting your website to fill in a simple four-field form and have a link to that page of the website emailed to their friend.

Web Ring
A Web Ring is a great way of getting more traffic to your website. It allows webmasters of similar sites to your own to add their link to the ring then each webmaster displays the ring (a system of links) on their site.

Web Resources
Web Design Links
Links to help with your website design

Clipart
100,000 photo's Images and Webart

Javascripts
Our JavaScripts are great little tools to drop into your website to make it more interactive

550+ Website Templates

A massive choice of templates to choose from.

E-Commerce Solutions

Personalised Secure Server
Now you can have your own personalised secure server at a fantastic price. With your own secure server your customers can go to https://www.yourdomain.com instead of using our generic secure server available on our (Business and Advanced plans). This makes your site look more professional. Once you have your own secure server, any files in your public_html directory can be called from your secure address. This service is just £179.99 per year and includes all certificate fees.

30 day money back guarantee
We are that confident you will love our service. That's why we offer a 30 day money back guarantee. However if we fail to meet your expectations then you can cancel at anytime, and we will refund your hosting within the first 30 days. Domain names are exempt as this is your property, and will be deducted from the total package amount, you can transfer out free of charge or point to other DNS servers.

Cancel Anytime
No contract, simple as that. You can cancel anytime, however any you will not receive a refund. As we don't refund on a pro-rata basis.

Price Freeze Guarantee
The price you pay now, is the price you will always pay, while you keep your account with us, this is how we reward our customers. We will absorb any price increases. (Excludes free domain name on sign-up where applicable)

Webmail (access email anywhere)
We offer one of the most powerful and flexible Webmail systems.

* Enhanced address book
* Enhanced calendar
* Webmail anywhere
* Spell checker
* Different interfaces
* Scheduling
* Outlook-to-Webmail Sync
* Mailbox Sorting & Searching
* Email Filters

Mail Boxes (200)
Mail boxes allows you to add mail boxes to your account. A mail box stores mail on our server until you download it using an email client like Outlook Express.

Our mail servers support POP3 and IMAP.

Autoresponders (200)
Email Autoresponders allows an email address on your account to automatically respond with a specific message.

Mailing Lists (200)
Put a simple form on your site so people can subscribe to your mailing lists, this enables you to keep your customers up to date with new offers or changes to your site.

Email Forwarders (200)
This allows you to forward any @yourdomain.com to three different email addresses.

Catch All Emails
Catch-All Email Forwarding allows you to forward ALL email from yourdomain.co.uk to any email address you choose, for example a hotmail or yahoo.com address.

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

Virus Scanning Per Domain (£28.99)
Protecting your home or business PC from viruses is critically important, nine out of ten viruses are spread by email.

For £28.99 per year, our virus scanning system stops emails at the server so you never have to try and deal with them yourself, our software automatically updates every hour so that it always knows about the latest viruses on the Internet.

Each virus scanner you buy will totally protect one specified domain.

Don't wait until it's too late!

Master FTP Account
The FTP account allows you to easily upload your webpages to our servers.

Additional FTP Log-ins (10)
Additional FTP accounts are most commonly used to give others access to an account for the purpose of sharing a web development project, without giving them control over the entire Website. By restricting their access to their home directory, you can ensure they can only modify files within this particular space.

MySQL (20)
MySQL is a relational database management system, which means it stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one big area. This adds flexibility, as well as speed. The SQL part of MySQL stands for "Structured Query Language," which is the most common language used to access databases. The MySQL database server is the most popular open source database in the world. It is extremely fast and easy to customise, due to its architecture.

MySQL Web Interface
A powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. It is open source, written in PHP, and is among the better tools available for working with MySQL databases.

Control Panel
Managing your web hosting account is simplicity itself using BPanel 2.0. BPanel 2.0 is a Web-based environment that puts you in control of your web hosting account and all the features that are included in it. It has been developed in-house by our Development Team, meaning that our control panel is tailored just for our customers.

Installing Joomla, WordPress, PhpBB just got easier. We take the stress out of running your website. Try our online demo below or scroll down the page to see all the features we can offer you. 1. File Manager 2. Some Webmail Features 3. Scheduled Tasks 4. Free Web Resources

Domain Management
Change Domain Contacts
This feature allows you to update the owner, admin, billing and technical contacts for a domain name.

DNS Management
This feature allows you to configure your own DNS records. All A, CNAME, and MX records for your domain can be altered.
Transfer to Another BirchHosting User

This feature allows you to move your domain names to other birch Internet accounts or consolidate multiple birch Internet accounts.

Change Nominet Tag
This feature allows you to change the Nominet tag (known as the IPSTAG or IPS-KEY) on your UK domain name to another tag. This feature is free of charge with BirchHosting (some companies charge up to £25 per domain name to do this).

Change Nameservers
This feature allows our customers the flexibility to move their domain names away to external hosts at any time, but you'll lose all the benefits of our extensive range of free services if they do! The service is free and fully automated.

Opt Out of .uk WHOIS
This feature allows private individuals to hide their personal details from the Nominet public WHOIS database.

Sub Domains (50)
Sub domains allow you to have new web addresses for separate areas of your Website. For example you could have support.yourdomain.co.uk and point this at your yourdomain.co.uk/support/ directory. You can use sub domains in conjunction with additional FTP accounts, creating in effect simple hosting accounts with a sub domain and an additional FTP account.

Website Builder Plus (£14.99)
Click here for more info.

Microsoft Frontpage Extensions
If you have used Microsoft FrontPage to design your website you will need to install the Microsoft FrontPage Extensions to use all the features.

Online File Manager
Our file manager has a great range of features to help you manage your files and folders online.

Free Search Engine Submission
Submit your site to 10 search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN!

Backup and Restore your Website
The backup feature allows you to download your website as a zip file. You can use this feature to make a regular backup of your website in case you lose any data.

The restore feature allows you to restore a backup zip file that you have made using the Control Panel.

Website password protection
This feature allows you to password protect a directory on your website. By keeping the password a secret you can let only people who have the password into this area.

You can easily add, remove and update users for an already-password-protected area of your site.

Scheduled tasks
This feature enables a program to run automatically on the server and can set your program to run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.

Multiple Domain Mapping (£9.99)
This feature allows you to point more than one domain to a single website/ hosting space. For example if you have 'mydomain.com' and 'mydomain.co.uk' you can have both domains point to your website.

IP Address Blocking
This feature allows you to block certain IP addresses from visiting your website.

Website directory auto-indexing
This feature allows you to either show the content of your web directories as file listings or show them as a 403 forbidden error.

400 Search Engine Submissions (£59.99)
For a small fee, we can submit your website to over 400 search engines each and every month for 1 year, ensuring you maintain a high web presence.

Personalised Secure Server (£179.99)
Now you can have your own personalised secure server at a fantastic price at only £179.99 With your own secure server your customers can go to https://www.yourdomain.com instead of using our generic secure server available on our (Business and Advanced plans). This makes your site look more professional. Once you have your own secure server any files in your public_html directory can be called from your secure address.

Generic Secure Server (£179.99)
This feature allows you to block certain IP addresses from visiting your website.

Domain Privacy Per Domain (£9.99)
As a domain name owner you are required to provide contact information so that other Internet users can contact you if needed. This information is often referred to as the WHOIS information. Unfortunately this information is regularly used to send unsolicited emails (spam) or could be used by competitors or other third parties to find out your address and contact information.

The good news is that we are able to protect this information for you using our domain name privacy product. For just £9.99 per year we will protect your real identity in the domain WHOIS databases by providing generic contact information using our domain name identity-secured.com. So rather than your address, your phone number and your name being displayed all they see is identity-secured.com. Using our domain privacy product does not impact the ownership of your domain name. People may still contact you by using a contact form on www.identity-secured.com, at no time will they see your contact information and you do not have any obligation to respond to them.

Website Builder
Click here for more information.

Stats and Tools
Bandwidth Meter
When someone visits your website they use your bandwidth, the graphs and tables will show the amount of bandwidth you have used.

Graphical/Text Access Counter
Graphical/Text Access Counter & Hits Logger in One allows you to add a plain text or graphical counter to your website, you also get a full set of statistics for the page the counter is on.

Website redirect
A Website Redirect allows you to redirect www.your-domain.com or www.your-domain.com/any-folder/ to a different domain or web address