Citric is a niche hosting provider. We don't have hundreds of customers or thousands of servers. We concentrate on providing high levels of service by being very good at running hosted services. Each customer receives a highly tailored service, providing exactly what they need, scaling and adapting as those needs change. These services are backed by excellent one-to-one customer support provided by expert engineers and developers.
We began hosting applications because we were dissatisfied with the services available from large-scale providers. Our developers were producing applications based on the latest technologies, and we found we could a much better job of hosting those using our in-house infrastructure expertise.
Once the infrastructure was in place for hosting our applications, we found we could exploit this to provide other services - utility services such as email and databases - to customers too. We share the same platform as our customers, so we have a double incentive to ensure the platform is both responsive and reliable.
By staying small, we can concentrate on the details of hosting. We have to make sure each component of each service is performing optimally at all times. It also means we can create individual solutions very easily. Although we offer "packages", we encourage customers to tailor these or come up with their own solutions - if you need it hosting, we can host it.
It's true that in recent years, Hyper-Scale hosting has become available to everyone. Providers such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have opened up their datacentres for customers of all sizes. The benefits of hyper-scale hosting - low cost and high availability - come with a number of disadvantages:
Our approach allows us to design and build a solution in our hosting environment, and then scale elements of it when needed to Microsoft's cloud hosting - ensuring the customer receives the highest levels of service in a solution designed specifically for them.
Software as a Service (SaaS) delivered as a web application, or as a remote desktop. For custom applications, such as data-driven websites, or Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, Sage Accounts etc.
Low-priced packaged offering from Microsoft which allows customers to use Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync on Microsoft servers, supported by Citric. We take care of the integration and migration. Read more about Office 365 and request a free 30 day trial.
For fixed length work with a fixed price. Fulfilling business analysis and project management duties, preparing a specification and delivering within a given timeframe. Read more...
Working to an Hourly / Daily rate on shorter engagements (e.g. installations, troubleshooting). Read more...
Pay per incident (break / fix support only) or pay fixed monthly rate for reduced rates and prioritised/proactive support. Can include software licensing and hosted services. Read more...
Perhaps none of the above suit you. We're happy to negotiate working terms per project and per client.
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