ITP hosted services include not the cheapest or easiest technologies to maintain. They do not contain the technologies with the best profit margin or partner kickbacks. ITP hosted services represent the best technolgies in the industry hands down. Everyone knows that one online backup system is not as good as the next, there must be a reason why one costs more than another. What is the difference between one hosting provider or another? We can explain why we are different and why we are better period.
Hosted services are a way to often provide a lower cost of entry to technology but more importantly they make life easier saving you critical key person time to manage and maintain another piece of hardwre or software. These technologies are turn key solutions to your biggest problems. Don't spend months searching for a comparison we have already done the work and will share why our hosted products line up and beat the competitors.
Advanaced Cloud Based Website Hosting
What separates the 1,000's of web hosts from each other? Most of the time nothing. You can buy webhosting for pennies a day. Then again you can buy a car for $100 or $100,000 and anyone could see the difference. The challenge with technology is weeding through the lingo and to trust people to tell you the truth about the technology. At ITP we want to empower you the client to understand our platform and ask questions. We want you to know the level of service your getting and the great price you are getting that service for. We can utilize publicly available online tools which we will describe in the article below to show you objectively that what we are saying is true and the fact of the matter is your web site and your corporate email and reputation is most likely at risk right now.
Lets talk technology for a second. You can host a web site on your computer at home if you wanted. You probably don't have the bandwidth for it and your ISP would probably block it but you could do it. You can Google web hosting (you will probably find us there too because we know how to market) and find fun web hosting company names like "Vortech" "Hostgator". We feel firmly that our technology speaks for itself as clearly the best. Not the easiest or the cheapest but the best. Here is why:
99% of web hosting companies today still operate in a traditional IT environment. Hosting companies will have hordes of servers that they purchase and lease for say 100/mo in turn they sell the space on that server over 2,000 times. You can see why now they can charge only $5 a month. Think of it as rent on a home. If it is just you in the house the rent is high but it is quiet. Think of having 2,000 other people in your home, not so quiet and everyone would be fighting for resources. Want to check how many other sites are on the same server as you? Goto: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/ and enter your URL.
Surprised to see who you are sharing space with?
If the site happened to find any adult content or sites, which have been compromised, your search engine rankings may well be suffering from their mistakes.
The next problem with traditional web hosts is that these servers have to sit in a datacenter somewhere in the United States (hopefully).Most web hosting companies will select a datacenter which is good for them, meaning price.Do they have an SLA? (Service Level Agreement) which guarantees them certain uptime?If you host with the company who actually rents the space from the datacenter you might be ok.Problem is most people are not they are getting their hosting space from a reseller of a reseller of that space.Now try to get support when there is a problem.Go back to the home analogy, the power goes out, 2,000 people start screaming who is going to get helped first?
With ITP you always know you can contact our office 24 x 7 and if there is a critical server issue someone you know can take care of your issue.
Brace yourself we are going to get really technical now.Most web hosts are running your website and DNS on a Windows Unix or Free BSD server.Those operating systems are running cpanel or plesk or hspshere the 3 largest hosting platform providers.All that software is running on a server which if it has a failure is going to bring down all the websites connected with it.Do you use email or a database?Now you are exposed to possibly 3 servers (hosts like to divide tasks to save money) which If any have a hardware failure your site is immediately down until someone calls someone who knows the guy who can actually replace the part.
At ITP we use the latest in cloud computing technology.Your website has dedicated resources available to it and is hosted on a virtualized layer that is independent of the hardware it resides on.Meaning one or more hardware failures can occur and your website, DNS, email does not go down because the virtualization layer will shift to the non-failed hardware in the cloud.This means less maintenance downtime and little to no unexpected downtime.
Contact ITP today and we will help evaluate your current platform and explain why you may be at risk.Your web site is your connection with your current and future customers.It is a reflection of your brand and just as getting a busy signal on a phone dos not instill confidence a down web site hurts the appearance of your organization.In addition, your web host often also controls what is called DNS (Domain Name Service) this service is what tells the rest of the world that “@yourcompany.com” email should go to your servers in house or elsewhere.That means whether you are hosting your email with your website hosting company or not your corporate email platform which you have taken great strides to maintain could be taken off line because of your web host.With everything that is riding on your web site hosting company don’t trust it to a noname company with a cute mascot.Trust it to the people you know at ITP.
Online Backup Competitive Overview
ITP Online Backup and Restore
Competitive Overview
ITP
LiveVault
(Iron Mountain)
eVault
(Seagate)
Sonicwall
Software Installation
Agentless - Single Install per LAN
Install per Machine and per Plug-in
Install per Machine, per Plug-in and One Additional Central Control
Install per Machine and an Appliance Installation
Backup Type
Scheduled or Continuous (CDP)
Scheduled or Continuous (CDP)
Scheduled or Continuous (CDP)
Continuous (CDP)
Billing
Compressed Data
Uncompressed Data
Compressed Data
Per Appliance, Offsite Backup, Support Contract and Additional Fees
Pricing is per appliance, service & support, bare metal restore and offsite fee
Requires Appliance or Device
No
No
No
Yes
Requires Appliance per Customer
No
No
No
Yes
Requires NEW Appliance per customer for capacity upgrades
No
No
No
Yes
After Hours Support
Free - 24 x 7
Free – 24x7
Additional charge after 6:00pm ET
Additional charge for 24x7 support contracts
Email Continuity - 100% uptime email
It happens. Your business experiences an email network outage, shutting down communications and exposing you to the loss of important information. Whether due to power or equipment failure, a natural disaster or even human error, email outages can occur at any time, affecting productivity, reputation, and ultimately, your bottom line.
To protect your business whenever “it” happens, ITP Disaster Recovery Services provide the safeguards you need to protect information and keep the lines of communications open. Our services work like an insurance policy to protect against potential business disruptions and offer:
* Automatic or manual service engagement * Ample storage to protect against even prolonged outages * Outage notifications to your IT staff * Easy management via the MX Control ConsoleSM * 24x7 customer support and automatic service updates
ITP provides two disaster recovery service modules to meet the needs of your business.
* ITP Message Continuity – Provides Web-based email access, management and use and 60 rolling days of storage. During an outage, all inbound and outbound mail continues to be filtered by the ITP Email Defense Service to protect your business from threats. Once connectivity has been restored, all outage-period email activity is intelligently synchronized with your primary system.
* ITP Fail Safe Service– A storage-only solution that is ideal for businesses that can’t afford to lose an email during outages. ITP Fail Safe provides five rolling days of storage and delivers all spooled email back to the businesses upon completion of the outage.
With ITP Disaster Recovery Services you can be confident that no matter whenever “it” happens – and “it” will - your business is protected.
Server/Data Co-Location
For many companies, the old model of deploying an IT infrastructure onsite has become an expensive, ineffective method for supporting the technology needs of the company. This is particularly true for companies that have a distributed workforce, a large number of sites, or require greater than 99.9% network availability. ITP’s co-location services provide a secure, redundant solution and network availability the rivals the best in the industry. Utilize ITP’s co-location services as part of your company’s disaster recovery strategy or as a valuable solution that reduces IT cost. Either way, ITP’s co-location services ensure your data is safe, secure, and managed by some of the best people in the industry.
Spam Email Defense
ITP’s spam defense service provides inexpensive, flexible, and accurate spam control with less than .01% false positives, success rates above 95%, 3 levels of incoming and outgoing virus scanning, and on-demand e-mail storage in case of connectivity failure. Much more than just spam protection, ITP’s e-mail defense services provide a complete solution that saves your company time and money – all for less than $2.76 per user per month. Never worry about viruses, spyware, or other malware delivered through spam again.
Accurate and up-to-date information on the latest security risks. A Risk is a threat that exploits a vulnerability that may cause harm to one or more assets.
