Best Shared Hosting
For the ISP that provides the best shared hosting services
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Best Shared Hosting
Requirements for Entry:
- Entrants must register their services and other requested information for the appropriate award(s) via the registration form linked to from www.ispaawards.org.uk by January 22nd 2010
- Entrants must be an ISP or a company offering mass web site hosting to customers.
- Entrants for Best Shared Hosting will be given a file that they will place on a shared server.
Overview of Technical Tests:
Epitiro will periodically download the hosted binary test file in order to measure performance of the service. The same broadband services will be employed to test all the hosted services, with broadband from different providers employed in order to mitigate the impacts of differing peering arrangements. Specific measurements taken are as follows:
- Download speed
- Availability
Value-Added Section:
In addition to technical testing, entrants to this category are required to submit a value-added form, which will be used to assist the judges in selecting the winner of the Award. The judging criteria and questions are available below. Please download the value-added form below and submit to awards@ispa.org.uk by 30th March 2010.
Judging Criteria:
- Hours of support
- Hardware redundancy of each level
- Firewall protection
- Security measures at data centre(s)
- Patch management process
- Guarantees for connecting servers to the Internet
- Number of IP addresses offered
- Flexibility: Can size of site change without penalty or being tied into a contract
- Payment options
- Price and value for money
- Domain / DNS management available
- Data centre availability / SLAs
Bearing in mind the judges criteria, entrants will be asked to answer the following questions using no more than 200 words per section
1. How does your shared hosting service provide value for money?
2. How do you ensure the privacy and security of your customers' data?
3. Describe the choice / flexibility of your services.
4. What further characteristics distinguish your service from that of your competitors?
