Introduction

This page is designed to help you choose suitable subscription plans and hosting features.

Scenario A - Businesses with Basic Web and E-mail Hosting Needs

I have a small business and I am looking to create a basic web presence linked to my own domain name. I would also like to be able to send and receive e-mail from my domain.

Solution: Ipera offer shared hosting plans from $7.95/month, which include 750 Megabytes of storage and 5 Gigabytes of site traffic. The shared plans are ideal for simple web-sites that rely on static HTML content and images to market your business or product.

The plans also include include e-mail hosting, which allows you to set up a number of different mailboxes for each of your employees or the different departments within your organisation.

If you are a small or medium-sized business that is looking to put your company profile on-line so that customers can get an idea of what you do and the services that you provide then the 'Starter' and 'Business' plans are ideal.

Scenario B - Businesses with Advanced Web Hosting Needs

• I have a business and I would like to open an on-line store so that I can take sales orders over the Internet.
• I have a content-driven web-site that requires database access and scripting support
  

The 'Premier' hosting package includes database access and advanced scripting, which are both necessary if you are planning on hosting an on-line store or  a content-driven site. You can also install and customise any number of pre-built web-based content management systems, forums or on-line store applications. This can save you the time and money associated with developing your own system from the ground up, and allows you to spend more of your time customising your web-site and adding content.

Scenario C - Web-Developer with Multi-Domain Hosting

• I am a Web Developer with a number of clients, and I would like to be able to manage multiple domains from the one account.

Shared Hosting - The 'Developer' plan that Ipera offers allows you to host up to 30 domains from the one account, with 35 GB of site traffic and up to 150 mailboxes. The plan allows you to resell web and e-mail hosting and the best part is that you get to decide the price. You can manage your domains through Parallels Plesk®, which allows you to make configuration changes, install software, manage e-mail, database access and more. There is no prerequisite technical knowledge,  plus there are hundreds of high-quality how-to documents available from the Parallels site if you need help getting started.

Virtual Private Server with Plesk - For complete control of all of your domains and the ability to manage services at a very low level, Ipera offer a Virtual Private Server solution running under Parallels Virtuozzo Containers® and Plesk®. Virtual Private Servers are more secure compared to shared hosting, and you will often find your sites are more responsive because you have access to a guaranteed set of resources. The Parallels Power Panel allows you to start / restart your server, manage backups and log in to the console - all from an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

 Ipera Reseller Hosting - VPS hosting with e-commerce interface - be your own host! You provide customer support.

Scenario D - Businesses Seeking to Outsource Mission Critical Server Hardware and Management

• I have a mission critical server with a requirement for very high availability

Solution: Ipera provide a Virtual Dedicated Server solution running under VMWare's Virtual Centre®. To get you started we can replicate your existing server and migrate it to a virtual environment or we can provide you with a clean installation of Windows Server 2003 or Linux. Once you are up and running, your server will be completely hardware-independent and positioned to take full advantage of our clustered hardware and SAN.

Our hardware network is multi-redundant, multi-homed, fault tolerant and incredibly intelligent. For example - If the hardware node that your server is currently running under suffers a complete and total failure, the other nodes in the network will notice the outage and dynamically move your server across to another hardware node in real time. Your server stays up and connected throughout the whole process and the entire migration takes no more than 30 seconds.

Scenario E - Business with a Mobile Workforce

• I am running a small business and don't have the time or resources to maintain a mail server, what can I do?
  
• I have a number of employees who are regularly on the road or out of the office on business. How can I communicate with my employees?

Solution: Ipera provide a managed exchange solution that allows us to fulfil all of your Microsoft Exchange hosting requirements. We take care of backing up, maintaining and supporting your server, and ensuring that your mail is always available. Employees who are out on the road can connect directly to our exchange server via a laptop or PDA and take full advantage of their office e-mail, shared calendars, contacts and public folders.

Scenario F - Medium to Large Multi-Site Business

• My business is growing and I need to consolidate my infrastructure needs across multiple sites. Can you offer me a complete solution?

Private Networks

Ipera can provide private networks over numerous types of transport media including DSL, HDSL, E1 and E3, ATM and Frame Relay. Your data is completely segregated from the internet, and you are able to take advantage of our stringent Service Level Agreements which ensure that your connections are available when you need them.

Virtual Dedicated Server

We can migrate your existing physical servers over to a virtual environment, which allows you to take advantage of the high availability and uptime that virtualisation can offer, and forget about having to constantly upgrade or replace hardware. If you need additional capacity on a server all you need to do is call support, and we can generally upgrade your subscription on the same day.

Thinclient Workstations

For multiple sites, we can deploy Microsoft Small Business Server and Terminal Services in a Virtual Dedicated Server. With an appropriate DSL connection, you can convert your workstations to a thin client model, and take advantage of managed application deployment and centralised control over your workstations. With our Software as a Service licensing model you can pay for software as you go on a month-by-month or annual basis, with no up front capital costs. In most cases your agreement will include upgrades to the latest version at no extra cost.