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A Little About Us

For over 2 years, we have been providing windows based shared and reseller hosting solutions to our customers. With servers available in both the UK and the US, we can provide fast, reliable hosting coupled with efficient and friendly support! Experience the benefit of the latest Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, while still having access to alternative technologies such as PHP and MySQL.

About TechOnADesk Hosting
TechOnADesk Hosting opened its doors to customers on the 16th April 2004 and was an instant success. Reaching profitability by the middle of 2004, TechOnADesk continued to grow and improve its services throughout 2004 culminating in the provision of new servers at the beginning of 2005 which allowed us to further expand and improve on our services. Throughout this period we were also developing new features for the Helm control panel to improve not only our own services, but the services of hundreds of other Helm based web hosts who have purchased these features. In the middle of 2005, new technologies were introduced including Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to compliment our ASP and ASP.Net hosting offerings.

Towards the end of 2005 and for the beginning of 2006, we were investigating and preparing for what would be the biggest change since TechOnADesk opened - the provision of brand new servers both in the UK and the US, plus the migration of all existing customers to these new servers. With the introduction of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 at the same time, and other numerous improvements we continue to focus on providing the very best shared and reseller solutions on Microsoft technologies and there are many more new features to come!

Even with it's continued growth, especially during the first few months of 2006, we are still not a large web host - and we are pleased about this fact. Being smaller means that we can have a more personal relationship with our customers and provide friendly support on all aspects of their hosting. This is something that you do not always get with a large company who, for example, set targets for their support staff on how many tickets they must answer in an hour, possibly using prewritten answers - ignoring the unique needs of the customer. At TechOnADesk, we are system administrators, developers and site owners as well, meaning we have real world experience in creating and running websites. We can use this knowledge to assist you with any problems you may have getting your site running. In particular we specialize in the two main Microsoft languages - ASP and ASP.NET.

 

Datacenter/Servers

Our servers are located at "The Planet". They own a number of datacenter facilities in the Dallas area of Texas. The Planets network includes over 25gbps of outgoing bandwidth across many different providers including UUNET, AT&T, Level3, AboveNet, Savvis, Time Warner. Click here for a tour of the datacenter.

We also maintain a backup DNS and mail servers at the Redbus Interhouse in the UK. These servers will share a copy of the data on the US servers meaning that even if the entire country was unreachable, there would still be at least one DNS server available to answer DNS queries for your domains and the UK mail server will accept mail on behalf of your US server. This is important as this means that email will be queued for later delivery if there should be a problem with the mail server, rather than being lost as it would be if no DNS servers were available. So if the entire US was unreachable you will not loose any email!

Every day all of our servers are backup up to a central repository. This is then regularly mirrored to the UK, so that in an emergency we have a full copy of all data at both locations!