Hosting services

Perceval's Hosting Services enables your business to deploy and maintain Web sites, ecommerce portals or online data with ease and maximum reliability. With hosting services, Perceval maintains the computer that runs your hosted service. The hosted computer normally runs at Perceval's data centre, which links the computer to the high-speed Internet backbone.

Hosting benefits your organisation by providing reliable storage and maintenance of online information. Hosting is usually the best choice for ecommerce web sites, where you want your site available around the clock. Hosting gives you flexibility to increase or decrease capacity as user demand changes.

With Hosting Services, you are not buying hardware and tying up capital in depreciating assets. This increases liquidity and frees up money for investment elsewhere. Hosting also leaves your free to concentrate on its core competencies and not get tied up in maintenance.

Hosting services can be shared or dedicated:

• With dedicated hosting, your organisation has exclusive control of a computer, which you can customise to your exact specification. Ecommerce Web sites and online databases usually need dedicated hosting. You should also use dedicated hosting where security is paramount.
• With shared hosting, other organisations also use the same computer, which limits the customisation and the capacity of your hosted component. Shared hosting is cheaper and is suitable for simple marketing Web sites.

The following factors should guide you when considering hosting services:

Sales and Marketing

• Do you want to market your organisation to a global audience on the Internet and increase awareness of your products and services?
• Do you want to increase sales by selling your products to a global audience through the Internet?
• Do you want to enable your current customers to order goods automatically, enabling line of business transactions?

Perceval's Hosting Service provides the infrastructure for Web, ecommerce or business to business trading sites.

Reducing Expenditure

• Do you want to focus on what your business does best?
• Do you want to reduce expenditure on maintaining your current Web site?
• Are you concerned about being locked into proprietary technology?

Perceval's Hosting Service enables you to concentrate on your core business. Perceval's support for open standards make it easy to change platforms or equipment in the future.

Reliability

• Do you want your organisation's Web site or ecommerce site to be available around the clock?
• Do you want to consolidate your current Web site provision into a more reliable environment?
• Do you want customers to access your Web site even if your organisation loses its connection to the Internet?

Perceval's Hosting Service provides exceptional levels of reliability and robustness.

For more information on the business benefits of Hosting Services, contact Perceval