Hosting for Social Media

Organisations are now adopting Social Media as a significant new way of improving customer engagement and intimacy, getting near real-time customer feedback on what your business is getting right, as well as your areas for improvement.

Whether you’re planning to roll-out a forum, a wiki or a blog, you'll need to host these on a platform that is reliable but that can take peaks in demand as you push out your messages.

There are different types of hosting that you could use as detailed below, we'd probably recommend a combination of cloud servers and files. These services provide scalable, on-demand virtual servers and file storage, so if you think your content could go viral, you can simply automate provisioning and deprovisioning of capacity, ensuring that you always have the capacity you need, and you never pay more than you need to.

Managed Hosting	Cloud Servers	Cloud Files
What is it?	What is it?	What is it
Dedicated server(s) on dedicated infrastructure	Virtual on demand servers on shared infrastructure	Unlimited online, on-demand storage for files and media.
Suitable for	Suitable for	Suitable for
Suitable for popular social media sites which see steady traffic levels which need to be 100% available.	Ideal for social media which may go viral and see peaks in traffic as cloud servers are instantly scalable on demand.	File and image storage
What's included?	What's included?	What's included?
Managed services including: Monitoring, reporting, security, admin & device control, back up, storage etc. tailored to your own needs. Microsoft Windows or RedHat Linux Operating systems 100% network uptime guarantee & 1 hour hardware fix Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about managed hosting	Cloud tools Including: Web-based console access; Bootable rescue mode; Snapshot-based Cloud Server backups (available as an option). Authoritative DNS hosting and management. Full root access to your Linux distribution or Windows Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about cloud servers	Content Delivery Network (CDN) included as standard for a faster way to deliver content globally. Files up to 5 GB in size can be uploaded to CLOUD FILES in one of three ways: * Through our online control panel, via the CLOUD FILES API, or via software third parties from the desktop and mobile devices like the iPhone or Android phones. Fanatical Support 24/7-365 Find out more about Cloud Files
How much?	How much?	How much?
From £325 per month	From 1p per hour or £7.50 pcm	11p per GB
Need some help?	Need some help?	Need some help?
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