As you may or may not know, I’m a proud member of the Fpweb.net SharePoint hosting team. Fpweb.net was the first company to offer hosted SharePoint 10 years ago. We are also proud to be the first provider to offer SharePoint 2010 hosting in the world. We pride ourselves as a customer service company who happens to build hosted SharePoint solutions.
There have been a lot of web hosting companies recently throwing together new offerings around SharePoint. I don’t blame them as SharePoint is taking off around the world. Companies are starting to realize it’s power and flexibility as an enterprise collaboration software solution. I worry that many organizations will try their first move to the cloud with these inexperienced providers. I hope to persuade those of you who haven’t made the move yet to consider Fpweb.net as your first choice from the start.
So why Fpweb.net?
- We have focused our business and hosting offerings solely on SharePoint.
- We have customers all over the world.
- We are heavily active in the SharePoint community.
- Simply ask on twitter what SharePoint hosting provider you should choose, wait 5 minutes, and start counting all the SharePoint MVPs and authors who recommend us.
- We can help you choose the right solution to meet your business needs. From choosing an appropriate SharePoint SKU, to building a scalable server topology, to customizing SharePoint in order to revolutionize and streamline your business processes; we do it all.
- We cater to individuals and organizations of all sizes and requirements. It doesn’t matter if you are a 2-person startup or a fortune 500 company.
- We have an array of different SharePoint hosting plans that will allow you to take advantage of this awesome product at quite a price savings vs. an in-house deployment.
Do you simply want to save money in purchasing hardware and staffing? No problem. Do you want to host machines for training or demos? Check. Do you need help designing a highly available SharePoint farm? We’ve got you covered. Do you want to install your custom solutions or 3rd party software? Yep, you can do it here. Do you want to integrate your corporate AD accounts into the hosted SharePoint farm? Yes, you can do that too! Do you have an on-premise farm that you want to migrate to the cloud? We will assist you!
Here is a quick overview of our Hosted SharePoint plans:
SPF = SharePoint Foundation
SPS = SharePoint Server 2010
Multi-Tenant: SPF Starter and SPF Group
Overview: Browser Access Only, no Server console access.
SPF Starter is generally a good solution for: Consultants, small intranets, demo sites
SPF Group is generally a good solution for: blogs, sandboxed solutions, small intranets
Semi-Dedicated Virtual: SharePoint Foundation Pro and SharePoint Server Pro
Overview: Shared SQL backend, server console access to the SharePoint web front end
SPF and SPS Pro plans are generally good solutions for small business intranets with customizations, 3rd party solutions, and low volume public websites.
Dedicated Virtual: SharePoint Server Enterprise, Duo, Treo
Overview: These SharePoint 2010 Server environments combine or split up the server roles (Domain Controller, Web Front End, Application Server, and SQL Server). You would have server console access to all servers in the farm.
These environments are generally good for medium sized intranets, public websites, and extranet collaboration portals.
Custom Environments: HA, Geo, Custom
Overview: These are fully redundant farms for large intranets, ECM solutions, or large volume websites. If your SharePoint solution is business critical, consider one of these. These build upon the Treo and can include redundancy at all server roles.
Keep in mind that any of these hosted solutions are scalable and mobile. Scalable in that more processing power can be added at any time. Mobile in that each type of plan can be upgraded to a more robust option. Also, I always recommend considering a smaller development\staging farm as well as a production farm. This smaller scaled farm will give you a place to test your customizations and site modifications before deploying to production. All of the solutions mentioned here are based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. We offer the same plans in the 2007 flavors as well.
I hope that this information has helped clarify what we do and our hosting plans!
If you would like more information please feel free to contact me with your questions and contact information! I look forward to working with you!
