BWF Hosting Web Hosting for Schools Service Northern Ireland Schools Overview BWF Hosting Ltd are a local web hosting provider based in Carrickfergus County Antrim. We understand education, having started from humble beginnings while our founder was Head of IT in a local Secondary School. We understand education and we believe our Web Hosting Offering for Schools is exactly what you need to help your students succeed. We have two types of packages listed on these pages: Package for Schools needing to host students websites Package for Schools needing to host their main school website One Two Three Web Space 15GB 25GB 60GB Traffic Quota 1TB 2TB 2TB Access Languages Databases 10 20 500 MySQL Sub Domains 5 10 200 Domain Name 1 INCLUDED 1 INCLUDED 2 INCLUDED Dedicated IP YES YES YES SSL Security Certificate YES YES YES Backed Up Daily YES YES YES Fully Managed YES YES YES COST 89 annually 129 annually 250 per year * The C2K Information was taken from their helpsheet entitled C2K Web Hosting Service dated January 2014 in the bottom left.
Additional features for your students Control Panel Access Your students can have access to the most popular hosting control panel (cpanel.net) to manage their web space. One Click Installer Install over 250 scripts on your website in one click. Shopping Carts, Forums, Wikis, Blogs etc all available instantly. Complex database permissions and configurations are all taken care of for your students. Information can be located at: www.softaculous.net Logs and Statistics Install Google Analytics or use our built in Stats System to track traffic to your website and see at a glance what visitors you are getting. Backups We always backup our servers but our control panel also allows students to generate and download their own local backups. This whilst not essential can teach them a real world skill that is vital in the industry (backups are important!). Web Based File Manager Our web based file manager means you do not need any special software to upload your website. Whilst using ftp (file transfer protocol) will give students an additional skill it is not needed and all you need is a web browser to upload to our servers. Web Disk Cloud Storage Using the web disk feature in Cpanel your students can use their allocated storage to backup any important files. A student from one of our schools in England wrote a Guest Blog Post for us on this very topic about how he used his space to do just that: http://www.bigwetfish.co.uk/cpanel web disk/ Cobain Schofield of Wirral Grammar School in Birkenhead blogs for us about how he used his school provided hosting account (hosted at BWF Hosting) to help with his A Level studies.
Standard Features for Teachers / Schools Fully Managed Service We are a fully managed service provider and if you need any help with setting up accounts on your new server, just ask. Free Website Migration If your school website is currently hosted with another provider and you move to us, we will do all the hard work for you. Let our team migrate your data to our servers for you. 24 / 7 Helpdesk and Live Chat Support Our Certified Level 3 Support Team are always online we never sleep! If you need any help or advice talk to us and we will do the best we can to help solve the problem. Managed Backup Backups are taken daily. We also store weekly and monthly archives. Should a student delete a file or break their website just open a helpdesk ticket and a member of our team will restore it for you from our available restore points. 24 / 7 Server Monitoring We have true 24/7 server monitoring. http://bwf.co/gotyourback will give you information on what we do to make sure your server stays up and online 99.9% of the time. FREE hosting of your main school site on our Business Grade Platform When your buy our 250 package to host your student sites we will give you an additional FREE business grade hosting account on our top of the range hosting platform to host your main school website on.
CASE STUDIES Carrickfergus College Carrickfergus College have been using our service for 5 years now. Not only do we host the main College Website but we facilitate the hosting of their CCEA Applied ICT Websites. Students produce professional looking websites, with many implementing a fully functioning web shop as part of their A Level Web Unit. Ulidia Integrated College Ulidia have been using our service for 3 years now. Not only do we host the main school website but we also facilitate the hosting of their A Level Websites. All students in Ulidia learn the skill of producing a very professional and clean looking website using Wordpress. The skills the Ulidia students learn will be of great use to them in any future employment in the web industry. Carrickfergus Grammar School Carrickfergus Grammar School host their main school website with us on our Business Hosting Package (an ideal and cheaper package if you do not need to host student websites). Downshire School Carrickfergus Downshire School host their main school website with us on our Business Hosting Package (an ideal and cheaper package if you do not need to host student websites). Priory College Holywood Priory College host their main school website with us on our Business Hosting Package (an ideal and cheaper package if you do not need to host student websites). Saint Pius X College Saint Pius use our education hosting service to host the websites for their A Level students studying CCEA Applied ICT Web Development Unit. Belfast Model School for Girls The Model have been using us for a year and we host their student websites for their A Level Students. All students get their own web space. Cullybackey College Cullybackey College host their main school website with us on our Business Hosting Package (an ideal and cheaper package if you do not need to host student websites). Wholeschool.tv Wholeschool are a respected education service provider in Northern Ireland. We are contracted by Wholeschool to provide management and disaster recovery services for a number of their servers. This contract has recently been extended and doubled in provision after our 12 month review. MORE INFORMATION or CONFUSED BY ALL THE HOSTING JARGON?
Do you need help choosing the perfect plan for your needs? Not sure if you need the package with subdomains, not even sure what a subdomain is? Talk to a friendly local expert for help. For more information call our Education Team on: 028 93212030 (direct line) or email us: support@bigwetfish.co.uk and a member of our team will be delighted to help. BWF Hosting Ltd Education Hosting Division Unit 8C, Kilroot Business Park Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim BT38 7PR Tel: 028 93212030 (Direct Line to Education Specialist) Email: support@bigwetfish.co.uk