Shared Hosting

Your website MUST remain accessible and process requests swiftly. Our shared hosting platform is designed to guarantee continuous high availability for your site. Using load balancing, we distribute incoming requests across active servers, ensuring an even workload and allowing us to seamlessly add more servers when needed. The hosting platform runs across three data centres—spanning two geographically separate locations—further enhancing reliability.

Shared Hosting at BIT

In business IT, everything hinges on availability and performance. Your website must always be accessible and handle requests swiftly. This can only be guaranteed if every component of the process functions flawlessly. At BIT, we apply the same high-quality standards across all aspects of our shared hosting. To ensure this level of service, our shared hosting platforms are regularly audited by independent, specialised cybersecurity firms.

Maximum Availability with Load Balancing

Our fail-safe hosting platform is designed for continuous high availability. Websites are not tied to a single server; instead, a redundant set of load balancers distributes incoming requests across active servers, ensuring optimal workload distribution. These load balancers not only monitor server availability but also track response times to dynamically adjust request allocation. Thanks to this approach, we can add servers or perform maintenance without affecting your website’s uptime. Our hosting platform spans both BIT data centres, located in two geographically separate sites, further enhancing availability.

Dependable Storage with Ceph

For data storage, BIT uses the open-source Ceph system, renowned for its reliability. With three Ceph replicas—two of which are stored in different data centres—your data is always secure. The web servers are connected via a dedicated storage network, ensuring fast and robust data storage. Even in the unlikely event of a failure, the system is designed to recover quickly without data loss.

Linux Web Hosting with Flexible Support

BIT provides web space on a Linux platform with an Apache web server, including support for PHP, Zend Framework, Sendmail, and ImageMagick. We also support Server Aliases/Host Headers, allowing you to host multiple websites within a single web space. Customers have full access to their logs and can use web statistics without data being shared with third parties.

MySQL Databases for CMS Systems

Most content management systems (CMS) rely on an SQL database. That’s why BIT includes MySQL databases with shared web hosting. These databases are hosted on dedicated SQL servers for optimal performance and reliability.

SLA

At BIT, we don’t just talk the talk—we walk the walk. Our shared hosting service comes with a sharp Service Level Agreement (SLA), guaranteeing 99.99% monthly availability. If your web space is unavailable for more than 4 minutes and 19 seconds in a given month, you’re entitled to compensation.

Secure Connections with SSL/TLS

Security is a top priority at BIT. When using our shared hosting service, you benefit from a secure connection. We employ modern internet standards such as TLS, HSTS, DNSSEC, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DANE TLSA to combat cyber threats like spam, phishing, and malware. As standard, BIT provides HTTPS, a domain-validated SSL certificate, and SSL offloading with this service.