A starting point for your web presence.

Cost effective quality, scalable to meet the growing needs of your organisation.

Shared hosting (also known as Virtual hosting) is available for clients that want to have a web presence and the option to process information on that web site. They have relatively low traffic volumes and so want to keep their costs down. Hosting Services makes this possible, by hosting our clients' web site on a shared resource with best of breed products and services. Shared hosting offers scalability in all areas, with easy upgrades routes to add a shared database or move to dedicated or complex hosting solutions.

Available on Microsoft's Windows 2000 platforms and using the latest server hardware from HP, BSG's managed Shared hosting service is pre-engineered for performance and security. We monitor the server to ensure that contention between different clients does not exceed a 60% total utilisation. If it does, additional resources are deployed.

Once you subscribe to the managed Shared hosting service, you can be online within a matter of hours, benefiting from full monitoring, control and statistics tools. Every server sits behind our 24/7 managed firewall and infrastructure, but extra security is available upon request.

The Shared Managed Hosting Service inludes:

• Set-up of domain name, Imail, IIS, FTP and

• Fault tolerent 24x7 managed network - ensures no single point of failure between your web site and the Internet backbone.

• 200 MB of disk storage space

• 2 GB data transfer/month

• 25 email accounts on Imail server limited to a maximum of 100MB of space

• Server- side scripting using ASP, Javascript, VB Script

• Windows 2000 & IIS 5.0

• CGI Support using active PERL

• Included software: McAfee Total Virus Defence, SA Fileup and SA File Manager

• Monitoring of one URL

• Backup (off site) and Recovery

• 24/7 Hardware breakfix

• Web stats reporting - provides comprehensive user statistics with up to the minute traffic, marketing and demographic reports on how your website is operating in real time.

• Anti-virus protection for your server and email

• DNS hosting.

Additional Services (at additional costs)

• Shared Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database with 200 MB of disk storage

• Additional 100 MB database storage

• Additional 100 MB disk storage
  
  
• Additional 1 GB/data transfer/month
  
  

• Additional 5 email accounts
  
  
• Customised monitoring: ports, FTP, word search, HTTP, URLs etc
  
  
• Customised alerting, via email
  
  
• Customised backup and archiving, per tape-month

For further information see: Infrastructure Why Hosting Services? Levels of Support