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A website is only as good as its host maintains it. Its popularity is definitely dependent on what it caters to and how creative the content is but, a very important but often neglected portion is the administrative part of a website. This includes maintenance of the servers, firewall modifications, OS updates, configuring clusters and more. A regular check on all the hosting parameters guarantees that a website is not only up and running, but also is making a lot of consumers come back for more.

Managing and monitoring the hardware, security, backups involves a lot of time and precision. If your main task is adding content to the website, then the additional load of managing your hosting is not a feasible task, and it would be best to reach out to industry recognised hosting service providers. SingleHop is one such leader you can bank upon. Along with dedicated servers for hosting, SingleHop offers a ‘a la carte’ of managed flexible hosting services. Depending on your needs, you can choose the relevant services and pay only for those.

Reasons to choose SingleHop can be understood from the wide range of services and features it offers. Below are some key features and services listed for your convinience

• General Managed Dedicated Server Services: This would be really helpful in cases where you don’t have a round the clock IT support and would need to manage E-mail services, DNS servers, Webservers and relevant upgrades to it, MySQL configuration, Appserver configuration (Java/JSP/Tomcat). Additionally, you also receive 2 hours of system administrator troubleshooting time per month and an option of purchasing additional hours if needed.

• Quick Reaction: This is generally helpful if you need immediate assistance by SingleHop administrators when your hosting server has become unreachable and when time is of the essence in getting back to uninterrupted service.

• Dedicated Hosted Event Notifications: Built upon the open source monitoring application (Nagios), this service will fire instant notifications when any of the services are not performing which might include hardware, http, ftp, name server, email service, database (MySQL). Additionally, the status for all the services would be polled very frequently.

• Kernel & OS Updates: A periodic upgrade to the OS is as essential as safe and standards based programming. This service provides frequent updates and patches for either Windows Dedicated Server or a Linux Dedicated server so that the integrity and reliability are upheld.

• Backup Services: The most critical part of data management, backup is also offered in different solutions like RAID, secondary hard drives, dedicated MSA storage space, backup node storage and data synching solutions. Prices depend on size of data to be backed up.

• Spam filtering Services: Blocking SPAM is one of the toughest tasks for any administrator. With package options either per domain or per server to counter SPAM, this is one service which is highly suggested.

• Server Virus Scanning: Thwarting off the threats from viruses and malware is the most important task of any system admin. This service is tailor made to meet that crucial requirement.

• On Demand Security Audits: The experienced team of SingleHop administrators will audit the security exploits and loopholes every month with this service.

• Load Balancing: A highly responsive website will be widely appreciated by its users. To achieve this, in a multi-server architecture it’s always important to distribute the load. This type of load balancing is offered by SINGLEHOP either by Serverlron G4 connection based or Kemp Load Master Appliances which has SSL balancing as well.

If you manage the servers yourselves, you don’t have to pay anything. Any 2 of the services offered can be bought for $49.95 per month. Any 4 of the services can be bought for $99.95 per month. If you are in need of the entire set of services, that can be availed at $139.95 per month.

These features can be used separately or a relevant package can be chosen consisting of more than one service. It’s a known fact that server management and administration has a major share in capturing and retaining users. A correctly managed web architecture not only performs better, it also saves long running costs. With such granular services to choose from, SingleHop should be on your radar if you’re seriously contemplating of managed hosting services.

While SingleHop offers features which are best in industry, its always in the best interest of the customer to do his / her due diligence and read the terms and conditions before signing up for any product or service.

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