December 20, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web host Xtraordinary Hosting (http://www.xtrahost.co.uk) caters for the hosting requirements of UniversalPoster.com, it was reported recently. UniversalPoster offers official celebrity photos and posters with personalized messages in “an exact digital facsimile of the celebrity’s own handwriting, complete with autograph”. The company currently provides posters and photos for John Barrowman, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Tom Jones, David Hasselhoff, Paul Potts, Julio Iglesias and Rhydian in addition to a number of players in for England’s Arsenal football club.
The company’s CEO, Mr. Paul Harris, was key to forging deals with the stars his website promotes. “Our best references for our credibility and trustworthiness are our clients, who have chosen to grant us official licenses of their images,” suggested Mr. Harris. “Allowing anyone to say anything in a star’s name could have been a barrier for some stars’ managers, but we have online swear checking technology and several levels of online and real world checks to ensure we never print anything rude, lewd or libelous. The in-built quality of every aspect of our business is allowing us to overcome any initial misgivings. The stars themselves and their fans love the idea”, her explained.
“All our products are officially licensed and use the highest quality papers, original images, print technologies and support personnel to ensure both quality and value for our all customers,” continued Mr. Harris. “For example, most commercial posters are printed onto standard art papers that are between 100gsm and 170gsm. Our posters are printed onto heavier high-grade 190gsm white satin photo paper. This ensures better ink coverage and detail, a photographic finish and most importantly, a more durable poster.”
UniversalPoster chose Xtraordinary Hosting as the company “met their key criteria for customer service quality, reliability, security, flexibility and affordability”. With a presence in London and Edinburgh in the UK, Xtraordinary offers a range of virtualized services that “allow web developers to pay for as much or as little server capacity as they need”.
“Our Xen virtual servers are ideal for coping with fluctuating web traffic demands,” explained Xtraordinary Hosting’s CEO Mr. Andrew Ogilvie. “Being virtual means they are ‘sliced’ by software into smaller, virtual servers, so we can deploy as many ‘slices’ of server as you need. That makes our Xen virtual servers a very flexible hosting system.”
“Xen virtual servers are also a green option since you are effectively sharing the power-load between lots of users instead of each client having to commit to a whole server and its purchase and running costs,” continued Mr. Ogilvie. “Server power consumption is a real issue. The IT industry as a whole is up there alongside the aviation industry in terms of its carbon footprint. But IT brings us so many other efficiencies, it makes sense to go with the greenest option rather than use the technology less. At this moment, virtualized servers are that option.”
