We have been hosting websites for more than 4 years, and every website that uses our E-FLO or Travel Stream software has to be hosted on our servers. Most clients choose to have their website hosted with us, as it means we can very easily access their website to make changes or bug fixes.
It is also the most cost efficient solution, as we know our servers backwards and have instant access. All the data is highly organised and structured, and we can ensure that users only have access to exactly what they need to have access to.
Just as importantly, last year we invested in our infrastructure and upgraded to using Rackspace servers, meaning we have the number one rated company for dedicated servers and customer service in the world. This is expensive for us, but we believe it is absolutely vital that we have top quality servers and infrastructure to back up our services.
We have never promoted web hosting as a service on its own, as web hosting on its own is a very different market sector to the one we specialise in. However, it is important that we can offer top quality hosting to backup our key services.
We have weekly full backups offsite, and daily incremental backups, and have SQL Server 2000 and 2005 hosting capability. We are also now starting to investigate cloud servers, as we want to continue to offer the best possible website application hosting in the future.