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We understand that your establishment website is an essential part of your identity and way to communicate both internally and with the outside world. There are a wide variety of ever-evolving technologies to support the delivery of your creative content. Therefore we have created highly available, safe and secure environments to provide a wide choice of website hosting options, to suit your current and future needs.


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Basic Web Hosting provides space on high-speed Web servers for you to publish an establishment Web site.

Basic web hosting is designed to meet the needs of both new and experienced Web site managers, including support for web design tools, such as PHP, ASP scripting and databases. FTP access is provided to upload your files, or you can use Microsoft Frontpage. Simple Microsoft Access database connections are provided to allow you to build data-driven web sites.

Schools receive 500MB of web space, on either a Windows or Linux web server, though as schools require more space this will be available. To ease administration, the service includes Plesk Control Panel to allow easy management.

product benefits

  • Your site will be hosted on the National Education Network, allowing unparalleled connection speeds to your site's content from NEN-connected establishments;
  • Flexible – as your needs change you can easily upgrade your web hosting account to Advanced.
  • Full control over the setup of your Web Hosting accounts using Plesk


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Advanced Web Hosting provides space on high-speed Web servers for you to publish an establishment Web site.

Advanced web hosting is designed to meet the needs of both new and experienced Web site managers, including support for web design tools, such as PHP, ASP scripting and databases. FTP access is provided to upload your files, or you can use Microsoft Frontpage. Simple Microsoft Access database connections are provided to allow you to build data-driven web sites.

Schools receive 2GB of web space, on either a Windows or Linux web server, though as schools require more space this will be available. To ease administration, the service includes Plesk Control Panel to allow easy management.

product benefits

  • Your site will be hosted on the National Education Network, allowing unparalleled connection speeds to your site's content from NEN-connected establishments;
  • Flexible – as your needs change you can easily increase the amount of space you have on the web servers
  • Full control over the setup of your Web Hosting accounts using Plesk


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Further information will be available for this product shortly. In the mean time, please refer to the SWGfL Service Catalogue on ESI .


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product overview

Further information will be available for this product shortly. In the mean time, please refer to the SWGfL Service Catalogue on ESI .


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Domain names are essential if you want to have a school Web site or use an email service for your staff or students. Without registering and hosting a domain name neither of these is possible!

A domain name is the part of the email address that comes after the '@', ie *******@swgfl.org.uk or the part of the Web site address that comes between 'www' and the next forward slash. So in this example the domain is www.www.swgfl.org.uk/support.

Domain Name Hosting service means that you will be able to use your registered domain name practically, by attaching a Web site or email service to it. In technical terms this means that a file is created on a DNS (Domain Name System) server that contains information about services on a domain. This enables emails to be correctly directed and people surfing to your Web site to be sent to the correct place.

product benefits

  • Allows you to source all your email, Web hosting, and domain name services from one place which means you have only one company to contact for support, service amendments, and advice.
  • Removes the need for you to set up domain names hosting services on your own network - no additional overheads for hardware, support, licensing, or lost time.
  • Supports government initiatives, eg BECTA 'Schools names on the net' project - meaning your school can benefit from participating in these schemes.


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product overview

Further information will be available for this product shortly. In the mean time, please refer to the SWGfL Service Catalogue on ESI .


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