Interviewed on 5 Nov 07
Abby Hardoon, Managing Director
Daily.co.uk offers domain registration services, professional Email solutions, advanced Web hosting and Instant Website packages. Daily.co.uk has also broken the price barrier on Reseller hosting by offering highly specified packages at just £9.99 per month.
This is backed with an easy-to-use control panel with many new features seen in the UK for the first time. One such feature is the DailyDriveTM -which comes free with all web hosting packages – and allows users to easily and securely store all kinds of files such as music, photos or documents online, from anywhere in the world, using a web browser. All the documents on the DailyDrive are stored safely and securely in the Daily.co.uk Tier 1 data centre, with multiple connections to the Internet and fully redundant power sources.
Daily.co.uk’s new products and innovations are thanks to a second generation Web Hosting platform, built in 2007 by the most experienced web hosting professionals in the UK. The people behind Daily.co.uk have built some of the UKs best known web hosting brands. The Daily.co.uk web hosting platform benefits from this vast experience and track record.
What unique selling points do you offer?
Many of our competitors have been selling web hosting for almost a decade. At the core of their business is a hosting platform that is as old as they are even though some have updated from time to time.
Programming has changed a great deal in the last 10 years, and web hosting has experienced huge leaps of innovation. Daily.co.uk on the other hand has a ground up hosting platform built in 2006 -2007, which makes use of the latest technologies allowing for the lowest price points in the marketplace. Most importantly, we’re backing this with great levels of support, so our customers won’t be left hanging if they need any help – and no need to call on premium lines nor wait in lengthy call queues.
Describe the services you offer?
In a nutshell, ‘Hosting’ is the provision of services from a server in a data centre with high connectivity to the Internet. Web hosting is a sub-set of ‘Hosting’ and usually refers to websites, but will increasingly come to include the delivery of other services remotely, that we currently associate with our home or work PC. Going forward, Daily.co.uk envisages that the consumers and businesses alike will increasingly require hosting of all different types of applications extending from the current web hosting.
A good example of this is our DailyDrive, which allows our customers to store, access, and share documents, images, and music in our data centre rather than on the customer’s PC. The advantage of this is that those files are kept safe and secure in our data centre and won’t be subject to the failings of a personal computer. It also means those documents can be made available to any computer with an internet connection.
Describe your target market?
The Daily.co.uk product range suits anyone from Internet “newbies” through to experienced web designers and web developers alike. We’ve got domain names from just £2.59 for .uk and £5.89 for .com. This means that people can easily move up from using hotmail to get email on their own personal domain, or perhaps have web hosting in conjunction with email services..
At the other end of the scale we have a reseller hosting platform, prices starting from just £9.99/m, which allows our customers, such as the web design or web integrator community, to deploy their own web hosting business, sell their own hosting products, all completely white labeled as their own platform.
How is your company planning for the future?
We are acutely aware that we need to continue to adopt and develop the latest hosting solutions needed by the market and at prices that are affordable and accessible. As such, Daily.co.uk will continually stay ahead of the market by continually delivering on our promise to our customers. In 5 years we will have a business that continues to bring innovation, low price points and great support to the home market and markets abroad.
What benefits can you offer your customers?
We offer numerous things to the web development community:
1. Great products that are easy to use and will serve all their requirements
2. Affordable prices across the product suite
3. By placing our customers at the forefront we give a high level of support
4. Last but not least, we consider our customers as our partners – their success on the Internet through the use of our products, is our success – we therefore focus on helping our customers to be successful on the Internet
How do you support your customers?
No telephone queues, no premium telephone lines – we are always here to help our customers.
