Maintaining an enterprise-class Web hosting environment is critical to your success, but doing this well can consume large portions of your company's time and financial resources. Servers must be provisioned, patched, maintained and reprovisioned; complex Web applications have to be deployed, maintained and monitored; security patches, secure access and system-wide updates must be applied; asset effectiveness must be tracked. As a result, emerging Web-enabled business opportunities may be overlooked, put on hold or not fully exploited.
The answer is a managed Web hosting service that enhances the performance and reliability of your Web hosting environment while reducing the total cost of ownership. You get more in terms of IT capabilities – more innovation, security, reliability and support – without incurring untold increases in IT expense and risk. And your IT staff can concentrate its attention on your company's core business.
Improve Flexibility and Scalability
HP provides Web Hosting Services which is an end-to-end suite of services ranging from simple Web hosting to management of your complete infrastructure. Our proven approach places an emphasis on automation and standardization because your Web environment must be both flexible and scalable to handle fluctuating traffic flows. Flexibility is improved by leveraging technologies that automate critical tasks related to:
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Application distribution
- Server security management
- Auditing and tracking
- Multi-data center management
Adhering to IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices results in a more efficient, reliable and secure Web environment whose functionality can be easily scaled and adapted to your changing business needs.
Increase Responsiveness
Our automation technologies also reduce the time and resources required to conduct critical activities. That means you can implement changes to your Web site more quickly and bring new products and services to market faster than the competition. Automation also helps prevent inconsistent performance levels and enables quicker resolution of technical problems.
| Automated | Non-Automated | |
|---|---|---|
| Provision operating system and utilities | 1 hour | 8 hours |
| Deploy a Web application on 60 servers | 3 days | 4 weeks |
| Code Red security patch to 250+ servers | 1 day | 1–2 weeks |
| Audit 2000+ devices | 30 minutes | 1 week |
| Rollback 10 servers | 10 minutes | 2–6 hours |
Reduce Costs
Moving your mission-critical Web hosting systems to HP helps you realize savings that can be reinvested in new Internet initiatives or other key business areas. Our clients consistently save between 15 percent and 40 percent on their Web hosting operations. And with our service level pricing, you always know how much you'll be paying.
Our global delivery system produces:
- Economies of scale
- Enhanced operational efficiency
- Predictable maintenance costs
HP can also design, plan, and host an eco-friendly Web environment that helps reduce extraneous energy consumption and carbon production.
Enhance the Customer Experience
HP Hosting Services protects your revenue and brand image by mitigating or eliminating common Web-related issues such as frustratingly slow response times, poorly written Web-enabled applications and security bottlenecks. You can incorporate powerful business-enabling applications that support:
- Content delivery and streaming
- Complex, dynamic transactions
- Better application and Internet performance
We design and deploy flexible Web hosting architectures with robust features – such as local and global load balancing, application acceleration, virtualization of servers and WAN acceleration – that help prevent Internet traffic jams, improve site responsiveness and minimize risk.
Minimize Risk
An agile, adaptive Web environment improves your ability to secure your Web-based business system and reduces the risk of downtime. Automation also allows for more affordable business continuity and disaster-recovery options.
- Apply security patches more quickly
- Reduce human error
- Prevent loss from outages
Our industrial-strength infrastructure includes redundant network equipment and multiple high-speed connections for added peace of mind.
Exercise Control
Our award-winning, self-service Web portal gives you insight into the performance of your site through the reporting of nearly 100 application- and system-performance statistics, on both a historical and a near real-time basis. You can act on what you learn using online tools that control various elements of your infrastructure.
Key site management tools:
- Client portal
- Automated ticketing system
- Performance reporting
- Code deployment system
Experience a Greater Level of Service
Your Web presence is a key business enabler. An unplanned outage not only causes lost revenue, it also damages your goodwill with Web site users. That's why HP distinguishes our Web hosting services with an industry-best service level agreement (SLA) that includes strict financial penalties to ensure aggressive problem resolution.
HP Web Hosting Services SLA includes:
- Around the clock uptime guarantee
- Downtime calculated for each incident affecting site availability
- Site uptime defined at the component level
- Service credits apply for every incident and accelerate with duration
Excluding agreed-upon downtime for maintenance windows, we are able to deliver Web hosting services to an optional high-availability target of 100 percent.
Choose HP
HP Web Hosting Services allows you to standardize and automate processes, capitalize on economies of scale and realize operational efficiencies. Our solution maintains the integrity of your Web environment while easing patch management, code deployments and technology upgrades. The result is a highly scalable, highly reliable, highly secure Web environment whose functionality can be easily adapted to your changing business needs.
For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.