IronTree
Hosted in South Africa, trusted by 17,000+ businesses
As the world evolves and becomes more mobile, your critical data spreads across multiple devices and platforms via your members of staff.
Our hosted backup solutions offer an up-to-date way to backup your computer to the cloud. This means it’s become more and more crucial for your organisation to have a complete copy of your critical data for when things go wrong and data gets lost. Many organisations still rely on outdated cloud backup technology.
Hassle-Free & Autonomous
The IronTree backup solution offers a hassle-free and autonomous method of backing up your data to the cloud, and keeps it safe on state-of-the-art South African servers.
Features & Benefits
- Fully automated and secure
- Provides rapid recovery
- Fully supported
- Available across all OS systems
- Suitable for all data types
- Uses minimal bandwidth
- Cost-effective
- Easy to install
- Recommended by major local and international companies
How We Compare With Other Hosting Companies?
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Help picking the perfect hosting plan
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| State-of-art virtual environment fit for purpose | ||
| Unlimited, uncapped, unshaped bandwidth | ||
| Help migrating your server, applications and data | ||
| Help setting up the new server with proactive training | ||
| Proactive management of your hosting including network, security and availability | ||
| Proactive monitoring of server compute resources | ||
| Secure, encrypted and private access to your dedicated server (Private IP Address) | ||
| Proactive applications to assist with printing (*Vital for retail sites) | ||
| Proactive applications to protect you from ransomware and zero-day attacks (AD360) | ||
| Proactive server and OS updates to ensure your server is secure (Patch Management) | ||
| Proactive, collaborative SQL maintenance | ||
| Full server, managed backups and restores | ||
| Blazingly fast recovery of data or full server | ||
| Full management for complex hosting environments with multiple servers | ||
| Helpful human support when you need it |
Simplicity and Convenience
Software Installation and Machine Maintenance
IronTree
Evolution is installed on hosted server only. Any software upgrades, user profile settings etc. are completed in one location only. There
is no synchronisation, so less opportunity for errors in the system.
Memory compute power and storage space can be “tweaked” on demand.
Other Vendors
Evolution is installed in all workstation. Any software upgrades need to take place on each workstation.
Memory, storage and compute power follow the traditions “upgrade” issues where these elements need to be periodically upgraded
Risk
Theft, Fire, Data, Cyber Security Protection
IronTree
One data location, thus one “version of the truth”.
Theft, fire etc. present no additional risk to the business as everything is stored in one location on IronTree’s infrastructure within Vodacom’s data centre.
Hourly system (not only data) replication/backups occur in one location as that’s all that’s necessary.
Other Vendors
Workstations remain fundamental to the business.
Data (documents, spreadsheet etc.) are still saved to workstations and thus aren’t “centrally located.”
Service
IronTree
IronTree provides a “managed hosted service” arrangement.
Data security including system/data backups, Cyber security and critical software updates are managed via IronTree.
Other Vendors
The responsibility is entirely on the client to do all that’s necessary to protect and manage their infrastructure.
Today’s IT environment presents many “risks to manage” – so this point must no be underestimated.
Virtual Private Server Hosting
A Unique Private Cloud Hosting Service
IronTree’s specialised virtual private server (VPS) hosting is a unique service in South Africa, aimed at organisations using accounting or financial services and wanting to move them to a private cloud-hosting service. IronTree has been backing up the accounting and financial systems of thousands of South African organisations since 2008.
Not all organisations are ready to move to cloud-based accounting services because, in many cases, these services don’t have the comprehensive functionality they require. However there’s now no reason why an organisation can’t host desktop applications on a virtual private server. This provides an organisation with the best of both worlds: the ability to continue using highly featured accounting systems combined with hosting them in a secure, private cloud infrastructure.
IronTree has built a dedicated hosting environment for accounting and financial systems. It is hosted in our private cloud infrastructure and offered with additional services to ensure safety, cyber security and disaster recovery availability. We specialise in hosting services for Sage 200 Evolution and Sage 50 Cloud Pastel Partner. Find out more about why hosting Sage in the cloud could be beneficial to your business.
Why Use VPS Hosting?
- Eliminates the need for a physical server
- Enables access from multiple locations
- Ensures physical security of your servers
- Opex rather than Capex
Checklist of Services Offered
- Server hosting configured to your needs
- Windows 2012 R2 / 2016
- Remote desktop licenses for connecting to the service
- Panda Adaptive Defence 360 cyber security protection
- Data backup
- Disaster recovery
- Fully managed service
5 Primary Benefits of VPS Hosting by IronTree
- It’s easily configured and managed from a hardware resources point of view.
- Recovering from a disaster is far simpler and faster if you have the correct disaster recovery support.
- It’s much safer to host your servers off your premises as it eliminates the risk of power issues, hardware failure and the possibility of theft.
- It allows you to access your servers from multiple locations with ease.
- It’s hosted in a tier 3 data centre on reliable, redundant hardware with dual power supply, fire proofing, air-cooling, backup generators and Internet connectivity.
It’s Easy to Move to a Hosted Environment. Our Help is Included!
We use one of two methods to migrate your servers to our infrastructure, depending on your
server infrastructure.
- We can install a VMware converter tool to migrate your server infrastructure directly to our hosted platform across a secure VPN tunnel.
- We can take a full system backup of your servers and then restore your VMDK files to a VM created for you.
Networking and firewall configuration and testing is done before any hosted failover begins. Note that all licensing should be maintained, and applications and systems will remain intact during and after the migration.
How Do We Get Started?
We’ll work with you and your reseller to optimise a solution that meets your needs and your budget.
Ready to Give VPS Hosting a Try?
IronTree’s Differentiating Factors
Adaptive Defense
In order to be truly efficient, an endpoint protection solution s hould offer prevention, detection, visibility, and adaptive intelligence – before, during, and even after an a ttack takes place.
Adaptive Defense integrates all of these elements into a lightweight protection package for your server, supported by a large and scalable processing capacity in the cloud.
Panda Security Adaptive Defense 360 is the pinnacle of cyber security innovation. It’s a security suite that integrates Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Detection and Response. It’s a constantly updated managed service that protects your data from all known and unknown strains of malware, ransomware and cyber attack.
Key Features of IronTree’s DR Solution
Zero CAPEX
Requires no investment in cloud DR Infrastructure or onsite software and hardware.
Secure Data During Failover
Ensures data safety with encrypted backups during failover and proactive AI-based ransomware protection.
Disaster Recovery Orchestration
Ensures correct order of system recovery to address interdependencies between applications.
Managed Cloud Recovery Site
Enables you to failover to, and run, machines in the cloud.
Short RPO and Fast RTO
We backup your VPS every 2 hours. Which would result in a 2 hour Recovery
point Objective. The restore time is industry leading speed.
Printing
Printing from a hosted environment has come a long way since the days when hosting technology was new. It’s now simple if you have the correct drivers installed on both your local machine and the VPS environment. Even outdated dotmatrix printers can be adapted to print from our VPS environment using our software tool for printing. Also, your cash drawers for til l points can be opened from our VPS environment.
Windows Update Management
IronTree will take care of your server while you take care of y our business. Windows Update Management allows IronTree to update your server operating system outside of your business hours so that your dedicated environment is always up to date.
Server Monitoring
IronTree will monitor your server resources to ensure your systems are always running optimally. This includes reporting and notifications for issues that need a ddressing.