Plesk Mobile Server Monitor & Manager

Did you know that our Cloud VPS, Cloud VPS Extreme and Linux Dedicated servers all include Plesk Mobile Server Monitor for FREE? This cool new feature allows you to view the health of your Plesk server any time from your iPhone, Android or BlackBerry.

We also offer Plesk Mobile Server Manager as part of our Power Pack upgrade for just £5/month (UK hosting) or US$7.50/month (US/Singapore hosting) – simply contact our sales team to upgrade now!

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Plesk 11 Launch promotion: one month free Cloud Hosting

To celebrate the launch of Parallels Plesk Panel 11 yesterday we are pleased to announce a special offer across our range of Cloud VPS and Cloud VPS Extreme products! Until July 31st 2012 we are offering two months half price on all plans with 1GB RAM or more.

“As one of the global leaders in Cloud VPS Hosting, we’re excited that Layershift is an official launch partner for Parallels Plesk Panel 11,” said John Zanni, Vice President of Service Provider Alliances and Marketing, Parallels.  “The enhancements in Plesk Panel 11, including improved server and site performance and the new Web Presence Builder, match perfectly to Layershift’s focus on growing e-commerce sites, creative agencies and site owners that seek support for the latest web technologies.”

All our Managed Cloud Hosting services now come as standard with:

• Parallels Plesk Panel 11, with optional Web Presence Builder 11
• PHP 5.3 & MySQL 5
• Nginx website turbocharger (for high performance websites with reduced CPU & RAM usage)
• Layershift Managed Care Packs (end-to-end service guarantees and extra features)
• 24×7 Fully-Managed Expert Support and Monitoring from Plesk Experts since 2001
• 14 day Money Back Guarantee

To take advantage of this promotion, simply enter the following coupon code in our store while signing up for a new UK, New York, or Singapore managed cloud hosting server:

Coupon code: PP11LAUNCH

Click to find out more about our Cloud VPS services with Plesk 11

I invite you to find out more about how Layershift with Plesk 11 compares to other providers and view Layershift reviews and customer testimonials at our website where you can chat with one of our friendly sales engineers.

This offer does not apply to migrations from existing VPS’s within our range, but does apply to extra subscriptions for existing customers.

New Plesk Panel 11

As many of you know, we’ve exclusively offered managed hosting services with Parallels Plesk Panel for almost 12 years; starting with our shared hosting services and later with our Managed Cloud VPS, most of our Dedicated Servers and Complex Load-Balanced Hosting services. We find that Plesk helps our customers get the best performance and flexibility from our hosting services. We are very excited about the launch of the all-new Parallels Plesk Panel 11 as it brings some important features we have been eagerly anticipating!

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Care Packs & SLA

As part of our website relaunch last week we decided to refresh our entire range of services. Since introducing our shared hosting range in 2001, and especially our VPS and Dedicated Server range in 2003, we’ve learned a lot about the industry, our customers and the technologies we work with. We believe this is the perfect time for us to update our range to ensure we are providing customers with the best possible service and value for money.

One of the most common concerns (for those who didn’t already know what to expect hosting with Layershift!) from prospective customers was that we didn’t offer an official Managed Hosting Service Level Agreement (SLA) on any of our Plesk VPS or Dedicated Server plans. When we launched these plans almost 9 years ago we were against offering an SLA as virtualization technology was still emerging. Many new providers, or at least providers new to virtualization, are still learning about the subtleties of how to provide this technology in a stable manner which is one reason why they create high profile outages! Those providers see an SLA as a mere marketing tool, but it never made sense to us to offer an SLA on an immature platform, so we didn’t do it. Over the years we have refined our technology to provide stable hosting infrastructure and consistently reliable services so now that the technology is fully proven, offering an SLA finally makes sense!

Instead of simply following our competitors and offering meaningless and weak guarantees on only small parts of their service we decided to go much further and devise a complete range of “care packs” which are bundles of features bolted-on to our services (the first level included as standard!); these comprehensively guarantee our services and reinforce our commitment to providing absolutely the best quality hosting we can.

Highlights of our care packs:

• Up to hourly managed backups with up to 14 days retention offering up to 336 restore points!
• Critical software updates installed in as little as 24 hours
• Regular server tuning & optimization
• Comprehensive network (internal and external), power & physical environment SLA’s
• Hardware & cloud platform health SLA’s
• Intensive system services & health monitoring
• Dynamic resource monitoring
• Rapid, proactive incident response & resolution from our 24×7 support engineers

Full details about our care packs are posted on our website.

With our Cloud VPS range we include our Essential care pack free of charge, with an optional upgrade to our Enhanced care pack (only UK £10/month, Singapore/USA $16.75/month including 33% lifetime discount if ordered when signing up!).

For our Cloud VPS Extreme and new Dedicated Server plans we include the Enhanced care pack free of charge, with an optional upgrade to Enterprise (only UK £50/month, Singapore/USA $80/month including 33% lifetime discount if ordered when signing up!).

If you already have a managed VPS or Dedicated Server subscription with us from before 14th June 2012 we are bundling the Essential care pack for you free of charge (there’s no need to request this) with immediate effect. Upgrades to Enhanced or Enterprise can be requested via our sales team.

We would love to hear your comments and suggestions about how we can improve our care packs and service even further!