| Operations and hosting
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| | | Following the handover of your site, Pindar Graphics provides a fully managed hosting and application support service, under a comprehensive 24*7 service level agreement which is backed by industry leaders NTT. |
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- Provision of e-commerce, database and related software
- Site operational/monitoring support 365 days per annum (including weekends and public holidays)
- Application and technical support during office hours via telephone & remote user access
- Hosting of website on high-specification IBM servers in London's docklands
- Quarterly e-commerce user group meetings to discuss: best practice e-commerce, industry trends, development plans, networking with other catalogue / mail order business owners and managers.
- Automated site monitoring and alerts
- Detailed site traffic reports and analysis
- Account management support and liaison
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Hosting is provided on shared clusters of servers for cost-effective delivery of best-practice e-commerce or offered on dedicated servers for maximum performance and scalability for larger online retailers.
Secure 128-bit SSL encryption is provided for client sensitive data, and / or for trading sites, which allows customers to make payment online, and for data to be transmitted securely to your back office systems for processing.
Hosting of Pindars' e-commerce sites is provided by Pindar graphics' strategic partner, NTT Communications, for managed e-commerce hosting under comprehensive service level agreements.
NTT's operations centre keeps the hardware and network infrastructure under 24 hour scrutiny and management: maximum outage for hardware in the event of complete failure is 4 hours. Pindar Graphics' own trained technicians manage e-commerce website applications and databases during normal working hours and have automated monitoring devices 24 hours a day to alert them if there are any system problems out of hours. We provide a guaranteed 99.5% uptime (our average is 99.95%). |
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