Lightning Fast Hosting and We Can Prove It

UP TO 48 TIMES FASTER THAN ANY OTHER UK WEB HOST

Don’t just take our word for it - independent tests show that typical WordPress pages hosted with Media City Way load in just a quarter of a second.

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LIGHTNING-FAST HOSTING. EVERY HOST SAYS IT, WE CAN PROVE IT.

The page load tests, conducted through LoadImpact.com, utilised fifty concurrent requests and revealed that we’re up to 480% faster than the competition.

Page speed is crucial for better search engine rankings and happy visitors. Google’s research has revealed that 47% of users expect a page to load in under 2 seconds, and 52% state that fast load time is important to brand loyalty. Every millisecond makes a difference; a 100ms increase in speed for Amazon equals 1% more revenue.*

Built and optimised by experts our Hosting platform is 100% SSD and benefits from unique speed boosting features you won’t find anywhere else.

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*Source: Google, 2017

One Question Poll To Save You Money

Our new office in Leeds have put together a Poll to distinguish how much money people are spending on their web hosting for 12 months. The plan is to analyse the results and see how we can help save people money on their yearly or monthly web hosting.

To help contribute to the Poll and hopefully save yourself some money click the link below and answer the 1 simple question:

Link: Media City Way Web Hosting Poll

We've gone to the Cloud | Cloud based Web Hosting

A new start to year and for all our Web Hosting customers and future Web Hosting customers we wanted to let you know that all of our servers are now cloud based, giving you even more control, reliability and security.

These changes we're completed by some of the UK's most talented developers and engineers and at no point did any of our customers websites go down during the new year change. We are so excited to be pushing the boundaries of Web Hosting and wanted to start by letting you know we've built a web hosting platform that is second to none.

All of our cloud based servers are UK based in Leeds and Derby and offer you guys so much more control.

Click to find out more about our New Cloud Based Web Hosting and how we can offer you more control, power and security with your web hosting. What's more our prices have stayed exactly the same and haven't changed for 4 years.

Cyber Monday 16:00 Deal Eight

25% off Unlimited Web Hosting this Cyber Monday

Another great #CYBERMONDAY deal.

This Cyber Monday Only we are dropping our unlimited web hosting prices by 25%. Over the last four years we have helped hundreds of businesses save money with their web hosting and that is with our regular prices. Now we've dropped them by 25% to save you even more money!

How long does this deal last?

• You will get 25% off your web hosting every year for as long as you are with Media City Way *

Is your web hosting not due yet?

• Don't worry all you have to do is get in contact with us via 1 of the 3 ways below and we'll use your Cyber Monday Deal when your hosting is due to expire.
• If you do not already host with Media City Way you can still use this deal and what's more we'll also transfer your website for FREE!
• If you do not host with Media City Way and your Web Hosting is not due to expire there is still no problem! Just get in touch with us via 1 of the 3 below and we'll get in touch with you when it is due to expire, we'll use your Cyber Monday deal then and also transfer your hosting for FREE!

This deal is only available today (01-12-2014) and is available to both new and current customers. There is a limited number of this deal so get it whilst you can.

All you have to do to claim this deal is 1 of the 3 options below:

1. Get in touch with us Quoting Reference #HOS8 in your message TODAY (01/12/2014)
2. Give us a ring on 0161 669 4633 Quoting Reference #HOS8, TODAY (01/12/2014)
3. Pay for this deal right now by clicking the PayPal button below (£2.50 surcharge)

Make sure you check back for our last Cyber Monday Deal which will be on our website at 17:00 today.

* - Media City Way have the right to change their hosting prices at any time, your 25% discount will still be valid if our prices change.

In Business In Bolton Expo

Media City Way took part in their first In Business In Bolton Expo yesterday and sponsored the speed networking part of the event.

There was a 60+ Exhibitors and the event was attended by well over 200 people. Sponsoring this event was a great way for our company to promote the fantastic work we do here. As well as providing the visitors with the vast amount of services we offer, whether it be Web Design, Development, Web Hosting, SEO we we're also proud that we were able to tell the visitors that the deals their current web designers and/or web hosting companies are offering were nowhere near the amount of service and features that we are offering at a better price, in some cases we were offering 10 times the amount for 55% less.

Passing our knowledge to our past, present and future customers is what Media City Way is all about, we cut out all the jargon so even the most un-computer savvy person understands how their website, hosting and optimisation works for them.

Sponsoring the event

Media City Way were in charge of organising and running the speed networking event at the event, this was a great chance not only for ourselves to meet new contacts and potential clients but also to look at new ways of expanding our business to offer customers even more and giving them 1 point of contact rather than multiple.

Over 2000 business cards were exchanged whilst we ran the event which turned out to be a huge success.

Which Web Server should you choose?

This week our team have been looking into the differences between the open source Apache (Linux) servers and Microsoft's IIS servers to help you identify which server is more reliable and responsive for your website.

Firstly:

One misconception we hear about more and more is that people think you have to have to be running a Linux operating system on your computer to be able to host a website on a Linux server. This is not the case, it is irrelevant which operating system you are using on your computer.

So why choose Linux (Apache):

1. The main advantage of a Linux server is that it is open source. This means that these servers are far more cost effective than Microsoft servers.
2. Generally processes run faster on a linux server so load times are reduced.
3. Search Engine Optimisation loves Linux, due to you having more control over your server you gain gain a huge amount of assets when interacting with search engines and their robots.
4. Linux servers have an incredible record of reliability and speed and are least likely to crash as often as Microsoft IIS servers.
5. Linux supports a wide range of languages and databses such as PHP, Perl, PostGre, MySQL, PostgreSQL and many others which makes these servers extremely scalable.

So why choose Microsoft:

1. One of the biggest advantages of using a Windows server is that they can run Microsoft technologies such as Access and MS SQL databases.
2. Microsoft's programming environments such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and Visual Basic Scripts can be used without any extra modules Linux would need like Modmono, Chilisoft or Apache::ASP
3. Microsoft servers are more scalable than Linux servers and support everything Linux support as well as its own Microsoft services.

If you hadn't guessed it already

Media City Way would recommend you choose Apache (Linux) servers over Microsoft and any other server for that matter. Apache provides the most stable and responsive servers and are the best value for money.

Finally

If we hadn't provided enough proof for you to choose Linux to host your website hear is a graph provided by Netcraft on how popular linux servers have become over the last 10+ years.

 

Transfer your blog to your server

Having a blog on a website has become more and more relevant and can significantly improve visitor ratings.

What is interesting is that a lot of blogs are hosted on a different server meaning the visitor is, a: taken off your website or b: never gets to visit your website.

Each blogging software is different but you should be able to find some help on how to transfer your blog to your own server.

If you are unable to transfer your blog but want to gain more access to your site don't worry, get in contact with us at Media City Way and let one of our trained professionals do the transfer for you with 0 downtime on your website and blog.

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