Hi Colin,
Welcome to the forum, I have answered your questions below
1. Is the Windows Bronze package suitable for what I have descibed?
Ans. Our Windows Bronze package would be suitable for your
website hosting according to your description.
2. If I went over my bandwidth I presume you would let me know and I could just udgrade (and not get booted)
Ans. If you bandwidth usage exceeds 80 % of the total alloted bandwidth, you will be sent couple of email notfications. You can upgrade your plan anytime if you need more resources by only paying the difference in the price of two plans.
3. You seem to offer some kind of facilites on taking payments. Would this cover what I need? I had looked into linking paypal payments into my
website hosting but if you have tools which would provide payment options that would be great. The payments are only very small so I don't want to have to set up Merchant's etc which costs a lot.
Ans. You can accept payments on your
website hosting hosted on our servers but we do not provide merchant services, so you will need to contact a company like PayPal / 2Checkout / Worldpay or Authorize.net to setup a merchant account.
4. I wanted a .co.uk name but I notice your offer for free domain registration is only for .com. This seems strange as the .co.uk name would only cost 3 pounds to register per year (at another site) but the .com would cost 10 pounds. It looks almost like you have the free offer the opposite to what I would have expected.
Ans. If you wish a register a .co.uk domain name then you need to pay for 1 year and 1 year would be free as .co.uk domains are registered for minimum 2 years terms as per rules of nominet.
5. If you do take the free domain name do I own it? basically if I move host I can take the domain name with me
Ans. Yes, you are the owner of the domain name and you can take the domain with you while moving host.
6. Do I need Dedicated SSL for my online payments or is shared sufficient?
Ans. Shared SSL or Dedicated SSL depends on you as both fulfill the main aim of SSL; i.e. transmitting data in encrypted form over the networks. One of the main considerations in using a shared or dedicated SSL is the URL and how it will appear to your customers.
With Shared SSL, the URL may look something like this:
https:// secure.ukhostsupport.com/~username/
While with dedicated SSL, the URL is determined by you, either as another registered domain or as a sub domain of your
website hosting domain name.
7. Finally (you will be pleased to hear!!) to get going can I simply upload all my .net files and the SQL Server database file to your servers or is there more to it than that (especially with regards to the SQL Server I guess) and is that fact my database built in Express and not the full version of SQL Server a problem?
Ans. There shouldn't be a problem with regards to file uploads to our server. In case of any problem you can contact our support team and let them know.
Feel free to ask if you any doubts or further queries.