About Xtraordinary

Xtraordinary is a seven years established business hosting provider with a strong track record of delivering highly reliable service for our customers. Here are some of the ingredients that have contributed to that success.

Technical Rigour

  • rigorous evaluation of key suppliers (bandwidth, datacentres, network equipment, servers, sofware, infrastructure etc)
  • internal development of software to support the business to drive competitive advantage
  • hands-on in-house control of equipment, services and the network - minimise dependency on others
  • a network designed to avoid points of potential failure
  • a cycle of continuous process improvement

Service Ethos

  • prompt efficient service
  • genuine 24/7 phone support for mission criticial issues
  • do the right thing for the customer
  • stay until the job is done
  • build strong working relationships with all our customers, large and small

Sales Approach

  • technically led sales service
  • flexibility on solution design to meet the customer's requirements
  • efficient email and phone based quotations service
  • comprehensive and clear service descriptions
  • no overzealous hard sell

People

  • employ bright enthusiastic people (for technical roles our typical minimum requirement is a computer science degree from leading universities)
  • offer employees challenges and diversity of experience 
  • coaching to support employees' personal development
  • undergraduate student internships for computing students

Our Market Strategy

  • deliver technical and service excellence
  • gain the trust of customers to generate repeat and referral business
  • be an innovative early adopter in niche technology areas where we see market growth potential (examples being virtualisation, Atlassian Wiki & JIRA, Magento Ecommerce)

 

News

Throughput Testing

We've put up a file for demonstrating throughput speed to potential clients. This is hosted on a Xen linux VPS connected to

LINX Turbulence

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