Interviewed on 1 Oct 09
Andrew Cranson, Director of Operations
Layershift Limited is a profitable 8 year old UK-based company, with offices throughout Europe, selling web hosting services primarily to small businesses and web developers, and also operating the low-cost brand WizzVPS.com, using enterprise grade web servers located in the UK and USA. Layershift are a true 24x7 operation as they have customers all over the world requiring support around the clock and a professional sales and customer service experience.
About WizzVPS.com (a Layershift Limited brand)
* Very knowledgeable staff with 6 years Parallels Virtuozzo Containers experience and 8 years Parallels Plesk Panel experience
* Professional 24x7x365 Technical Support
* We have provided technical expertise to over 100 Parallels hosting providers
* Parallels Platinum Partners
* Exclusively use enterprise-grade Dell Servers
* Have been trading since August 2001, incorporated in 2006
* Maintain a strong working relationship with Parallels developers and product managers
* Sales and support staff based in multiple offices throughout Europe
* Servers based in own private racks in Manchester, UK (With own on-site staff)
* Manage servers running thousands of VPS's
What unique selling points do you offer?
Our VPS hosting is low-cost, guaranteed to be online within 1 hour (or your first month free) and using very stable Virtuozzo which is rarely used in the cheap VPS market due to the licensing costs.
Describe the services you offer?
Our Cheap VPS services include a choice of 5 linux distributions, with optional Plesk control panel, Parallels SiteBuilder and Parallels Plesk Billing (Modernbill). We offer Ubuntu VPS, CentOS VPS, Debian VPS and Fedora VPS services.
Describe your target market?
Our VPS range can be used by developers, web designers, bloggers, small businesses, individuals and many more.
How is your company planning for the future?
We have just refreshed our Ubuntu VPS, CentOS VPS, Debian VPS and Fedora VPS ranges by adding the latest version of these operating systems. We are looking to introduce cloud services, high-availability VPS and much more.
What benefits can you offer your customers?
We offer a streamlined, fully automated VPS platform.
How do you support your customers?
We offer 24x7 technical support via helpdesk.