Failover from any hosting provider

Sustain uptime regardless of where you are currently hosting.
Critical Switch allows you to failover from your primary environment to an alternative target in one of Star's data centres, allowing you to trade through any outage whilst resolving the issue with your main platform.

Regardless of whether your are hosting with another provider or your own in-house servers, Critical Switch provides a cost effective way to add resilience to your solution, providing you with complete peace of mind.

Add Critical Switch to any Star Business Hosting Package for only £50 per month
and protect your Web environment from unwanted downtime.

Understanding Business Continuity
Star's history and pedigree gives us unrivalled insight into the issues facing businesses today. We recognise that technology is only part of the solution when it comes to Business Continuity.

The Critical Switch product is supported by a range of workshops and seminars hosted by leading industry experts, and includes an online tool to help you build a dynamic IT recovery plan for your business.

What you will get:

Increased Uptime
Unrivalled protection against application, SQL and website
server downtime using an easy and quick failover mechanism.

Cost Effective Resilience
A highly effective failover solution without the usual costs associated
with eliminating single points of failure.

IT Recovery Planning
An innovative online tool to help you build a dynamic IT recovery
plan for your business.

Business Continuity Expertise
Free half day seminar on building an IT recovery plan, plus access
to a range of exclusive workshops from leading industry experts.

Active Monitoring
Partner Critical Switch with our Tivoli transaction monitoring for
intelligent monitoring of your primary environment

Data Replication
Available as an optional service, add Double Take to your solution
to provide you with easy data replication.

High Availability
Increase the availability of any server environment; removing single
points of failure with in-house or third party hosting providers.