Web hosting
At Fisher Simons we offer exclusive custom web hosting solutions to our clients and our clients alone.
We offer high quality, managed hosting at an affordable price. Because we only allow sites that we have developed onto our server, and carefully monitor resource usage, we can ensure extremely high quality hosting with maximum reliability and minimum service interruptions. Once a server reaches capacity we commission another machine to ensure quality and performance is not compromised.
Our motivation is satisfied clients and higher quality websites, unlike shared hosting solutions that try to cram hundreds of sites onto a single machine to maximise profit.
The Techy Stuff
We do this by maintaining our own high-specification cloud servers hosted on Rackspace's award winning cloud computing infrastructure. This approach allows us to combine the configurability of dedicated server hosting with the scalability, reliability and power of cloud hosting.
One benefit is that we can utilise full IIS, ASP.NET and MS SQL Server features and functionality - which are restricted in medium-trust shared hosting and even conventional cloud hosting environments - without the expense of a standalone dedicated server for each client.
Another benefit is that the built-in redundancy and scalability of cloud infrastructure allows us to easily handle traffic peaks - for example after a large email newsletter mailshot. Additionally, clients are protected from hardware failures and obsolescence as parts of the cloud physical infrastructure can be replaced or upgraded without service interruptions.
For security we maintain full onsite nightly server image backups for fast disaster recovery, as well as additional offsite backups for piece of mind. Rackspace provides 100% network uptime guarantees, UK datacenters with multiple redundant high speed internet links, plus true 24/7 support with trained technicians available at all times.
The Bottom Line
As mentioned previously, this service is only available to our own clients, for websites we have developed. Pricing is straightforward and dependent on likely loads with 3 guide levels*:
- Static site: £10 per month or £100 per year
- Small dynamic site (eg small shop, CMS): £30 per month or £300 per year
- Large dynamic site (eg busy shop, complex web app): £60 per month or £600 per year
We are of course happy to work with a client’s existing or preferred alternative hosting partner providing technical and platform requirements are met.
* we reserve the right to vary pricing to ensure resources are fairly distributed and may require higher fees for extremely busy websites. In all such cases we will advise clients before any increase. Clients always have the option to organise their own hosting should they not be satisfied with our service or pricing – we do not require hosting on our servers as a prerequisite for our web design projects.
"Working with Sarah has been an absolute pleasure. As designers ourselves we cannot have been an easy client and our needs and tastes were very specific. At all times Sarah remained professional, creative, highly receptive to our needs and importantly remained positive throughout.
Her fresh approach based on a knowledge gained from working in marketing helped guide us through the minefield of company branding and corporate vision leading not only to the creation of the vision for the website but also the base from which we intend to build our company profile.
Our philosophy for the growth of our "boutique" design practice has always been to immerse ourselves with talented industry leaders who ooze enthusiasm for their work. I am therefore delighted to say that Sarah is now part of our family."
Phil Jaffa
www.scapeda.co.uk
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