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Ecommerce Web Hosting Packages on UK based Windows Servers

The main question people ask is why do we charge up to 4 times more than our competitors and our answer is this:

"Simple economics and experience tell you that the cheaper competition need to put many more websites onto comparable servers to make money, which almost invariably affects YOUR websites performance.

Their support can be over-burdened, technically or commercially inexperienced, dis-interested, email only and in some cases very expensive.

There can be many, many hidden extra's / restrictions that are skillfully smoothed over by the salesman whether through inexperience or cold manipulation, we know because we buy things too!

When you ring up or email them to complain, the answer you will get from cheap companies is, "Well, what do you expect for £100 p.a. - if your website is so critical you should be on our premium range of accounts......." and to be fair they almost have a point. What do you expect? The trouble is, the damage to your company, website and reputation has already been done.

Harlequin was formed with the knowledge that in any marketplace, a position always exists for a company that truly stands out head and shoulders above the rest.

Our references and testimonials speak for themselves and do the work of many salesmen, leaving us free to employ and concentrate more on support, design, marketing and admin staff which in turn leads to an even better service which generates more and more recommendations from satisfied clients, which leaves us needing less salesmen etc etc.... a very nice un-vicous circle to be in and we feel a modern model for business.

Our entire company costs for marketing can be summarised as spending on, and providing good services for existing clients rather than spending on trying to attract new ones - it seems to be working."

Features included as standard in all of our hosting plans: -

- Latest Windows 2000 Server Software
- 128 Bit Secure SSL (Shared Secure Server space).
- 10 POP3 - Email Accounts.
- Secure Webmail - Pick up e-mails on the move via the secure https:// protocol for additional security.
- Email Anti-Virus Scanning / Script Blocking - Extremely powerful and effective feature.
- Email Spam Blocking - Its one of our biggest missions!
- Password Protected Directories - Secure areas of your Website to authorised users without scripting..
- Customised Error Pages 404 not found etc...make your own.
- CGI / PHP / ASP/ASP.NET ready - our servers can take some walloping..
- Forums - Snitz forums pre-installed and ready to use.
- Statistics Package - KNOW who visits your site and monitor how they get there.
- Full 'Raw' logfiles from your website - Allows in-depth offline analysis of your traffic.
- 5 User/FTP Access/Accounts - mum, dad, billy, sandra and YOU.
- Freephone 0800 Technical Support - from highly skilled, dedicated and experienced staff.
- Online Forums - For Harlequin Customers only.
- State Of The Art Data Centre - Our equipment is housed with Host-Europe for one simple reason, they are the best UK provider out there, we have tried many..

** Instant Account Activation - upload your site in minutes..yes, especially Actinic ones.

Actinic As an Actinic Approved Partner and Developer Harlequin provides specialist hosting accounts and support for all versions of Actinic Catalog, Business & Developer. We also provide freephone support for all Actinic Products or upgrades purchased through ourselves.

Specifications and Prices - Windows Shared Hosting - October 2003