Welcome to Direct Hosting UK

Direct Hosting UK is a secure, robust and affordable hosting provider. Our packages provide the home or business user with extremely attractive services at affordable prices with a guaranteed 99% uptime and free technical support 365 days a year.

With Direct Hosting UK whether you're creating your first website or building a complex database-driven site Direct Hosting UK can provide you with the perfect solution.

About the Data Centre

After much research we decided to locate our server at Ice Colo a state of the art data centre in Manchester, Ice Colo has a highly reliable and high capacity network.

The facility includes a enterprise level UPS and diesel based generator power solution with a auto changeover panel that automatically and seamlessly switch the power source from the mains to generator in the event of a power failure. The datacentre is connected directly to United Utilities' local 11,000 Volt ring main, with two separately routed incoming high Voltage cables. The datacentre has a dedicated 1 Megawatt substation onsite, protecting the datacentre from most common disturbances in the local distribution network. As well as providing isolation from other local power users. The facility also has Heavy-duty anti-static raised floor with N+1 downflow cooling with Advanced Knuerr Coolfex 'cold aisle' containment system.

The datacentre is a self-contained detached building situated within a large floodlit private fenced and gated compound, Full interior and exterior digital IP CCTV coverage, All monitored and recorded around the clock.

Control Panel

All our servers are running the latest version of WebSitePanel, WebSitePanel is developed by SMB SAAS Systems Inc a privately held independent software vendor creating innovative products and services for Windows hosting businesses.

WebSitePanel allows you to easily setup your web sites, create email and ftp accounts and manage your MySQL and MSSQL databases. You can also view monthly and daily bandwidth reports, for advanced statistics allowing you to view a breakdown of your website traffic in more detail than WebSitePanel can show we provide you with free access to AWStats.

WebSitePanel can automatically install web applications like Joomla an advanced PHP Content Management System and phpBB a high powered fully scalablea Open Source bulletin board and WordPress a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.

WebSitePanel has all the features you need to control your hosting space, for demo of our client control panel click here and for a demo of our reseller interface click here