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!
With
so many sites on one server, cheaper companies usually spend
lots of their time and money on software to restrict/manage
your websites performance - the first minute you actually get
busy your customers/surfers may start seeing, 'too many connections
- try again later' or similar messages. Your email is usually
slower as there are far more people trying to access the machine
at the same time, the same can be said for FTP transfers to
and from the site.
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.. take
a tour / tech
spec .
- Instant Account Activation - upload your site in minutes..yes,
especially Actinic ones.
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Actinic
As
an Actinic Approved Partner and Developer Harlequin provides
specialist hosting accounts and support for all versions
of Actinic Catalog and Business
We also provide freephone support for all Actinic
Products or upgrades purchased through ourselves. |
Specifications
and Prices - Windows Shared Hosting - October 2003
| Standard
Host | comparison: |
Developers Host |
| 1 |
Domains: |
10 |
| 10 |
Pop
3 Email Accounts: |
150 |
| Optional
Extra |
Outgoing
SMTP: |
Yes |
| Shared
SSL Cert |
Security: |
1
Dedicated SSL Cert |
| 1
GB (extra @ 3p per MB) |
Bandwidth
Allowance: |
5
GB (extra @ 2p per MB) |
| 50
MB (logfiles are NOT counted) |
Disk
Space: |
500
MB (logfiles are NOT counted) |
| Copy
and Zip your entire website, email and logs
via control panel. |
Backup
/ Disaster Recovery: |
RAID
5 + Daily off-site DAT Tapes (no fee for recovery)
- Advanced Port Monitoring |
| We
guarantee that our network will be available
at least 99.999% of the time. |
Service
level Agreement: |
We
guarantee that our network will be available
at least 99.999% of the time. |
| Shared
Network Firewall |
Security: |
Hardware Firewall per Machine |
None |
Speciality
Software: |
|
9am
- 7pm Monday to Saturday via Free-phone and
email (outside these hours by arrangement) |
Support: |
24
hours a day, 365 days a year via Free-phone
and email. We also provide a 'cotton wool' service
for our developers. (call for details!) |
| Single
websites using less than 5Gb of bandwidth per
month. (thats 95% of all websites.) |
Aimed
At: |
Actinic
Developers, E-commerce Developers, High Traffic,
Mission Critical Websites. |
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Prices: |
|
|
£50+vat |
Setup: |
£200+vat |
| £35+vat |
Monthly: |
£120+vat |
| £420+vat
(no setup fee) |
Annually: |
£1440+vat
(no setup fee) |
| 1Gb
included - extra @ 3p per Mb |
Bandwidth: |
5Gb
included - extra @ 2p per Mb |
£50+vat
Per Year |
Outgoing
SMTP : |
Included |
| £1+vat
per MB Per Year |
Extra
Storage: |
£0.50+vat
per MB Per Year |
| £200+vat
Per Year |
Dedicated
SSL Cert: |
Included |
£10+vat
one time fee |
Additional
Email Addresses: |
£5+vat
one time fee |
£30+vat
per hour |
Remote
Support |
Up
to 4 hours per month included |
When
you consider that it only costs around £1.15
+ vat per day for a Standard Shared Account or £3.94
+ vat per day for a 5GB Developers account on an Enterprise
Class Server, can your online business afford NOT
to be hosted with Harlequin?
We also provide and maintain Dedicated
Servers for clients, please call for an informal chat
about your needs.
Contact
us now to discuss your needs on 0800 0832077
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