Anchor is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company specializing in managed cloud, virtual, and dedicated server hosting. They have teams distributed all over the world, including the U.S., U.K., and Australia. They’re super innovative and have eye-catching offers for both big and small companies. The company was founded in 2000 and their core technical team is based in Sydney, Australia.
Features and Ease of Use
As a leading provider of AWS and cloud hosting services, Anchor has whittled their operational processes down to a science, ensuring that your business-critical production web applications are fully functional and performing at their peak. Essentially, they take the raw backend of Amazon Web Services’ and Microsoft Azure’s cloud-based storage and custom-build an infrastructure that can support your business needs. This ensures agility, flexibility, and scalability for any of your web-based applications.
Since their offerings are custom-built upon request, you won’t find standard hosting features like those that a typical shared or VPS hosting provider would detail. However, their list of managed hosting features include:
- Operating system installation and configuration
- Regular, automatic backups
- Monitoring and 24/7 incident response
- Backend patching and updates
- Installation and updating of supported applications (MySQL, Apache, and NGINX)
- Installation and updating of popular CMSs (such as WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and Joomla!)
You can select the level of management that best fits your staff capabilities. If you have more tech-savvy staff competent in server administration, you can opt for their Full Management package, which takes care of the initial installation and most of the backend maintenance but doesn’t include proactive emergency responses or fault rectification. Alternatively, if you’d like them to handle everything so you can focus on your production workload, you can opt for their Complete Management package.
Pricing and Support
Anchor provides a wide array of customizable, scalable solutions, so their prices also range from affordable to pricey. But with Anchor, you get what you pay for. Given that their packages are tailor-made for the businesses they cater to, there aren’t any pre-set prices listed on the website. However, they do list approximate price brackets for those gathering quotes.
Anchor offers toll-free numbers for customer support, but they are only accessible during regular business hours in Australia’s time zone. However, if you need emergency support, it is available 24/7 throughout the year. Alternatively, you can get in touch with them by using the contact form on their website.
