Dedicated Server Hosting
Web Prophets commits to the design, implementation and management of VPS solutions that are created to fit your organisation’s exact needs.
If you have the people/expertise to manage the process yourself, we will provide you with the tools and assistance to set up. If you don't have the time/resources to manage your infrastructure, we can manage it for you. Just let us know what works best for your business and we will do the rest.
BAREBONES SERVERS
Various barebones server options are available to suit your needs.
They can be configured as standalone servers with local storage or grouped into a Private Cloud where you can share resources amongst the different servers.
Server Options include:
- options for different generations of CPUs
- storage options including SSD, SAS and/or SATA available as local storage or as SAN storage
- choice of VMWare or XenServer for the hypervisor
OUR BUSINESS PROCESSES
Our working process has been developed over the past 17 years of business practice meeting requirements ranging from single-server development environments through to complex business-critical application stacks with DR in a geographically separate location.
Our methodology has been designed on the foundation of strong communication skills and complete transparency guaranteeing that you have influence over each key stage of the development and production life cycle.
All of our data is kept on-shore within Australia’s geographic region. As such, we guarantee your data will not leave Australia, unless of course you send it there yourself as part of your own business strategy.
Our goal is to assist you to:
- build productivity by freeing up staff resources thereby allowing you to focus on core business processes
- rest easy knowing your infrastructure is on a fully redundant network, separated geographically with options of High Availability and Business Continuity if required for your business critical systems
- grow confidently knowing you are supported by our team of experts
WE OFFER:
Ability to achieve a smooth transition
We will commit a dedicated team of skilled professionals to ensure a smooth migration to our network.
Scalability and robustness
Our solutions have weathered different scenarios and consistently provide our clients with scalable and robust solutions.
Value for money
We offer the best deployments that your budget can afford.
Defined service levels
Our structured service levels are designed with the flexibility to meet the simplest to most complex organisations structures including Cost Centres
Breadth of vendor services
We have over 17 years history building our team and business systems to ensure we serve the best solutions back by a broad range of services.
Australian owned and run
We are 100% owned and run in Australia by Australians
Disaster Recovery
We have a range of Disaster Recovery options available to meet your requirements. these range from backup/restore for data that is not mission-critical or doesn't involve transactions, through to clustered solutions spread across 2 geographically separate Data Centres.
Our Support Services are designed to fill in where you have a need.
Self-service
Designed for organisations who are confident with maintaining their own infrastructure and own their own kit but require the benefits of rack hosting within a professional hosting environment.
Hardware Care (VPS+IaaS+Colocation)
For organisations that have the staff that can build and manage your business software; our Hardware Care plan is ideal in assisting you maintain business continuity.
Web Prophets will manage all of your hardware requirements and monitor day-to-day systems making sure that CPU/RAM/disk utilisation is working best for your online business solutions.
Complete Systems (VPS+IaaS+Colocation)
This service provides the complete management of your online environment from hardware through to operating systems.
We will undertake patching, updating, monitoring and preventative maintenance of your environment whilst leaving you to concentrate on your applications and your business.
This service level agreement pertains to Web Prophets shared hosting, VPS, Managed Servers and Colocation services only.
Web Prophets Pty Ltd endeavours to achieve a secure environment that provides 100% availability to all of its clients. Web Prophets Pty Ltd maintains a fully redundant network and uses RAID disk mirroring on all servers to help achieve this goal.
The services outlined in this document will be available for use 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year for 99.95% of the time or greater, excluding scheduled maintenance and/or the failure of third party systems as outlined below.
The client will be given a minimum of 3 days notice of any outages for scheduled maintenance that are not of an urgent nature. Where possible, scheduled maintenance will occur outside of Business Hours (AEST) as defined in Web Prophets Terms and Conditions detailed on its website http://www.webprophets.com.au/hosting/terms-conditions.
If you are using one of our Shared Hosting, VPS, and/or Managed Server services then regular backups and the provision of system improvements as required (such as additional hardware, bandwidth, upgrades and patches to operating systems and applications) are included as part of the service. If you are a colocation client, then these services are only provided if you have elected to receive these services as part of your contract with us.
In the unlikely event we are unable to meet our 99.95% guarantee, a full credit will be issued as follows: 0% refund where Uptime is greater than 99.95% in a given calendar month ie. Total interruptions for that calendar month are less than 43 minutes 12 seconds
100% refund on any standard monthly charges for any services with an Uptime less than 99.95% in any given calendar month ie. Total interruptions for any affected service during that calendar month are greater than 43 minutes 12 seconds.
Standard monthly charges do NOT include any charges for any ad-hoc or contracted support or other works requested by the client during that calendar month.
To clarify, for clients with multiple services with Web Prophets, only the services directly affected are eligible for credit.
Credits are applied to your client account, and are not refundable or redeemable for cash.
Availability is measured per calendar month, and is reset each calendar month. Credits are based on the affected service charge for the month.
Web Prophets will not be bound to credit any monies/charges due to an inability to meet this Service Level Agreement for any accounts with any monies outstanding past the due date for those payments.
For clients with other than monthly payment terms, the credit is calculated by dividing the client payment by the number of months the client has paid for. I.e. an annual payment will have this total value divided by 12 to determine the credit applicable.
All credits are subject to the below exceptions and conditions of notification.
Exceptions:
- Force Majuere and other Circumstances beyond the reasonable control of Web Prophets Pty Ltd including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labour disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, virus attacks or hackers, failure of third party software (including, without limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics or free scripts) or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of this uptime guarantee.
- Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades.
- DNS issues outside the control of Web Prophets Pty Ltd, including but not limited to DNS propagation.
- Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP client access.
- Issues with CPanel (Control Panel).
- client's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorised by the client), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., PHP, HTML, etc), any negligence, wilful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Web Prophets Pty Ltd Terms and Conditions.
- Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account.
- Email or Webmail delivery and transmission Web Prophets Pty Ltd is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. Web Prophets Pty Ltd will guarantee only those areas considered to be under the reasonable control of Web Prophets Pty Ltd.
Conditions of Notification: To receive a credit you must send an email to info@webprophets.com.au or phone Web Prophets Pty Ltd on 03 9534 1800. This information must include the dates and times of the unavailability, any error messages or alerts that resulted from the unavailability, along with your domain name and account details.
This information must be received by Web Prophets Pty Ltd within five (5) business days of the incident.
Support Availability
Web Prophets Pty Ltd provides a Help Desk to respond to Client queries
Our office is available between the hours of 8.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Victorian business days, 10am to 4pm on Saturdays
Our Help Desk is available 24 hours a day / 7 days per week for Emergencies
When issues occur we post updates on issues and resolutions on our Facebook and Twitter pages. We strongly advise Clients to follow these pages to receive the most up-to-date information.
The Help Desk will be equipped to answer the vast majority of all requests during the initial call.
When the Help Desk is required to seek further assistance to respond to the client query, a response outlining the action that is to be taken will be provided to the client within 30 minutes of making the determination that such further assistance is required.
On average 90% of all client queries/issues will be addressed within 2 hours.
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Our 100% Fair Dinkum Money Back Guarantee
We have faith in our network and staff; to prove this we are committed to a 100% Fair Dinkum 100% Money Back Guarantee for all of the direct services we offer.
If, within the first 30 days of service you are dissatisfied with our network and/or customer service we will provide a 100% refund on the termination of your services with us. This refund covers any and all services we offer you (but does not cover third party costs such as SSL Certificates and/or Domain Name registrations or renewals)
To receive your refund you need do nothing, but close your services with us within the first 30 days. We will do the rest.
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24/7 Support
All of our hosting services include 24 hour / 7 days a week support, 99.95% uptime and complete redundant connectivity.