Knowledgebase: FAQ

What is web hosting?
Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company such as ourselves (Fusionhost) so that you may ...

What is Virtual Hosting?
Also known as shared hosting, this form of web hosting should suffice for most. Virtual hosting simple refers to the ...

What is Dedicated Hosting?
Dedicated Hosting is when you rent a whole server to yourself to host as many website\'s as you wish, for website\'s ...

What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is a word and/or numbers along with a TLD extension (e.g. .com) that uniquely identifies your website. A ...

How Do I Register a Domain Name?
Registering a domain name is an easy process with us. Firstly you have to check that the domain you want is available ...

Why should I transfer hosts, when mine offers unlimited bandwidth/space/transfer!
Unfortunately, It is physically IMPOSSIBLE for any web hosting company big or small to offer \'unlimited\' bandwidth or ...

What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?
Disk space is the size of your website. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on our server. ...

What are HTML, PHP, ASP, perl, etc?
These are all programming languages which are usual referred by their acronyms. * HTML – Hyper Text Markup ...

What is MySQL, MS SQL, etc?
MySQL and MS SQL are database systems which you can use on your website.

How can I pay for web hosting?
Fusionhost accepts payment via cheque (for yearly payments only), Bank transfer, NoChex and Paypal.

How do I upload my site online?
Uploading your site can be done in many ways, but the most popular is FTP. When your hosting account is created, you ...

What is uptime?
Uptime is literally what it means, it is the amount of time your website is online throughout the entire month/year. ...

What is the difference between UNIX hosting and Windows hosting?
Depending on which operating system to go with depends on your needs. If you need to support Microsoft products such as ...

Why don\'t I just go with the cheapest hosting?
A business HAS to make a profit to continue operating, lot\'s of web hosting companies do not properly understand the ...

Do I get root access?
As these accounts are hosted on a shared server, you will not get root access to the server unless you rent a dedicated ...

What is monthly traffic and how is this calculated?
Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. Each time a visitor views a page on a ...

How many visitors or hits can I get per x GB data transfer per month?
It\'s impossible for us to give you a figure as there are many factors that contribute to this. For example if your ...

What security / backup measures do you take?
All our servers are monitored continuously so we are able to respond almost immediately to any problems. Our Linux ...

Will I be able to view my website with a temporary IP address?
It is not currently possible to use a temporary URL to view websites but when you rent hosting from us you will be able ...

I have already built a website elsewhere. Can you transfer it over for me?
We can certainly provide this service for you. We charge £25 and we will also post you a CD with your website on as a ...

Do you offer telephone support?
At present, we do not offer telephone support. We offer support for all of our products and services by our ticket ...

Where are you servers located?
We pride ourselves in being an English company so it\'s only right that our servers are located here in the United ...

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