Partner with Australia's leading online and digital media managed services provider

As a market leader in solutions for the online and digital media industry in Australia, Hostworks specialises in the provision of mission critical, high transaction websites, video streaming, complex web hosting and demand management. The company services all the major online and digital media market leaders in Australia including ninemsn, Network Ten, ABC, Prime, Ticketek, Carsales, Seek, realestate.com.au and AHL.

The company employs 100 people across Australia and operates multiple data centres with two core facilities housed in New South Wales and South Australia. Focused on delivering to the rapidly changing demands of the online and digital media sector, Hostworks invests heavily in new technology and services such as content distribution, cloud-computing, application performance monitoring and automation.

Hostworks is committed to delivering a highly flexible service with a low tolerance for downtime. The Hostworks infrastructure is tightly engineered and proven to handle record peak loads and maximum security, using global best practice standards.

What are the crucial questions you must ask yourself when selecting your preferred Australian web hosting provider?

  1. How critical is your environment and can your provider support its criticality? 
    Hostworks guarantees a robust and secure service in support of your environment by architecting solutions to deliver the agreed service levels. Responsible for the leading online environments in Australia, Hostworks understands the criticality of our customers’ environments and the impact performance degradation and availability can play on their business.

  2. What is under the hood? 
    If your environment is critical look at the security and robustness of your supplier’s infrastructure. Hostworks will provide you with a tour of our facilities to ensure you have a complete understanding of the environment your critical applications will be run in and with whom you’re placing responsibility for these with.   

  3. Your website is critical – therefore do you understand the threats to your business? 
    As with your entire business you need to understand the threats and how to protect yourself against them. This is no different for critical wesbites, you need to understand the threats to your site and ensure you are adequately protected against them. How? Stay abreast of security concerns and threats to your business and question Hostworks about how we can assist you in protecting against them.

  4. Do you have a Business Continuity Plan? 
    This is your business and your website; the onus lies on you to ensure your business doesn’t suffer in the event of supplier failure. Ask Hostworks how it can help with your continuity planning requirements.

  5. What is the impact to your brand when your website is down?
    Even if your website is smaller scale, if its relevance to your brand is its availability, then you need to ensure you are with a supplier who can guarantee high availability And minimise any disruption to your brand.