Overview

Emojo offers a singular advantage in hosting Affino in that Emojo is the creator and developer of Affino; and has the most extensive understanding and experience in dealing with Affino technical issues. When hosting with Emojo, you have a direct line through to the heart of the company’s technical division.

There are numerous other advantages in hosting with Emojo, in the all-round coverage, backup and services that are included with Emojo’s Affino Hosting. Emojo prides itself on providing the most cost-effective hosting package with the highest possible revel of trouble shooting and issue resolution.

Benefits

• Lowest cost entry point to fully certified Affino hosting
  
• Rapid site deployment turnaround (same day in most cases)
  
• Fully inclusive package including bandwidth, monitoring and web stats
  
• Low setup fee
  
• Low monthly cost
  
• Portable - customer can move off shared hosting at a later date.
  
• 99% uptime - current uptime record is well above this
  
• Sites installed at ultra modern, high security hosting centre

Key Components (Shared Server Hosting)

Emojo Hosting Centre Specifications and SLA Service

• Emojo Fully Managed Affino Hosting Provision
  
• Daily Tape Backup (5 day archive)  
  
• Nightly Antivirus Scan
  
• 50MB Content Database Space per site (Affino Content)
  
• 24 hours and 7 days a week uptime monitoring
  
• 100% uptime target

Equipment

• Dell 2U Xeon Quad Core Servers (shared)

Usage

• Live Stats 8.x Web Stats

Statistics

• 5GB Web Server Space per site (Single Affino Database)
  
• 50MB Content Database Space per site (Affino Content)
  
• A starting 5 Gb traffic per month with extra bandwidth available
  
• 1 Support contact

Notes

• Shared Servers: Owing to the nature of shared servers, we are not able to make uptime guarantees, we have a best endeavour target of 100% uptime per month, and our track record is in excess of 99.5% on a monthly basis
  
• Equipment Upgrades: The equipment and software is subject to change as new versions become available

Data Centre

• Our data centre features 24x7 security systems. Our Infrastructure has the protection of security barriers, 24x7x365 monitoring by on-site personnel to include verification of all persons entering the building, CCTV video camera surveillance throughout, and security breach alarms.  Access to the buildings, data floors and individual areas are via individually programmed access cards, and visual identification. Whenever we swipe our card tag over the sensors to gain access to the building, our digital photograph is displayed and on-site technicians verify the request before allowing access.  Standardised procedures ensure us and our nominated staff can gain access to our equipment whenever we require, day or night
• Our application servers are positioned behind a firewall and database servers are kept on a separate internal network with access limited to our own specified application servers
• All Remote access is encrypted to a suitable level and is restricted to a small team of highly trained personnel who are equipped with alert and response systems to ensure that 24 hours a day and 7 days a week Emojo are aware of any issues and able to begin troubleshooting almost instantly
• Emojo has access to a redundant high-capacity power supply, scalable for future expansion.  With Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and stand-by diesel generators on site to ensure a resilient location for important infrastructure equipment
• Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) is installed in our data centre. These highly sensitive smoke detectors which are monitored continually from a network operations centre, provide very early detection to help avoid fire, loss and business disruption.  This is coupled with an environmentally-friendly gas-based or water mist fire suppression system to put out fires, with minimal damage to equipment
• To ensure performance and avoid equipment failure, all data floors are managed such that air entering our equipment is maintained at a controlled temperature and relative humidity.

Pricing

• Affino Shared Server hosting starts at £150 per month plus £250 setup charge
  
• For complete pricing, Enterprise Licences, Dedicated Hosting, Load Balancing and High-end Support please contact Emojo