Hosting
Shine Marketing provide robust and affordable website hosting packages for all the sites we build.
Designed to suit the needs of websites from small 'brochure' sites to secure, transactional ecommerce sites, we can offer the plans below.
For larger projects we are able to specify bespoke packages, PCI compliant hosting environments, dedicated servers, or fully load-balanced multi-server solutions as required by the growth of your business.
| Plan | Content Managed Sites | Transactional Sites |
|
Price per annum, per site |
From £200 | From £600 |
| Suitable for: | Active online businesses, needing to make frequent updates to the site themselves. | Businesses taking credit card or other payments online. |
| Storage space | 1GB | 3GB |
| Monthly Traffic | 5GB | 10GB |
| Additional Bandwidth |
£3 per GB |
About Our Servers
Shine's servers are dedicated to our clients, we are strict about our terms of use and the usage of resources is closely managed to avoid peaks from one client causing problems for others.
Our servers are high quality HP Blade chassis running 2x Quad-core Xeon processors with 8Gb RAM.
Disk drives are run in RAID arrays to ensure no data loss even in the event of failure of one of the drives.
Multiple services including the Apache web server, database server and 20 other services are monitored with the majority of issues being cured by automatic restart.
We also monitor the servers from 2 remote locations on a 15 minute cycle
The server farm is manned 24/7 to react to any failure of the hardware or network
Backups
Nightly backups are taken across all accounts for disaster recovery purposes
Network
The network the servers are connected to are of a similar high quality including :
- Juniper routing hardware
- HP switching hardware
- 100% infrastructure uptime SLA
- 10+ gbps external connectivity
- diverse DWDM fibre ring
- dual redundant gigabit feeds to each rack
- peers including Microsoft, Nildram, Bulldog, Cogent, NTL, Claranet, Google, HE, Akamai, the BBC, and hundreds more
Website Maintenance
Website maintenance ensures that any issues with your website after launch are dealt with promptly and is dependent on a number of factors including the complexity of your site and number of users.
Website maintenance plans are described here.
Email for your business:
Website hosting does not include the provision of email mailboxes or support of your local IT infrastructure to receive emails.
For this we recommend Google Apps.