Online Server Backup for Small Business - Finally I understand how online backup can be a costly proposition. Granted, it does save you the hassle and complications of taking media offsite and managing this media, but most companies providing online backup think they can charge a premium just because they have the word "online" associated with their product/service. After looking at several options and investigating several online backup service providers, we finally decided to come up with our own offering that fits the needs of our core clients, which are mostly small to medium sized businesses. Our Online Server Backup package offers a low per month storage fee of only $0.30 per GB-Month (and no it's not a typo, it is 30 cents). In the package we've included the setup fee for setting up your servers for backup ($300) and we've also included a low monthly fee ($30) this includes monitoring and up to one restore per month. How can we do this? By streamlining the whole process and outsourcing billing to Amazon which brings our overhead to a bare minimum. And what's more, for customers that have to have bare metal recovery, we can offer that as an option as well. Let me guess your next question; How secure is it? Well, we use 256BIT encryption before uploading the data. So the data is encrypted in transit and is kept encrypted while in storage. Our agent software uses Blowfish for encryption which exceeds any compliance requirements, even for agencies requiring high security clearance. We also keep the data in "buckets" at geographically diverse locations so you can get your data even if one of the datacenters is completely destroyed. Your data can also be made locally available in Europe if needed. Want more details or ready to signup? Simply visit www.pcsn.net/serverbak and click on the "signup" link towards the bottom.
Nadeem Azhar 4/16/2009
NOTE: We are making a change in after hours support. In the past we used to provide critical after hours support only and we decided if a support ticket was critical or not (usually things affecting a single machine were deemed not critical and server down was deemed critical). This did not work very well, so instead of us trying to determine if a case is critical or now, we'll let you decide. We are going to start providing after hours support at double the standard rate. So, for example, if a certain task is billed at $130/hour during regular business hours, after hours it will be $260/hour. This should cut down non critical after hours support calls where users wait until the weekend to place a support call. Also, now we'll start providing same level of support service after hours as we have during business hours. This went into effect on 4/15/2009. This does not effect pre-arranged implementations. If you do not wish to receive emails from us in future, please send an email to communication@pcsn.net mention that you would not like to receive future communications from us. |
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