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Considering the myriad of self-acclaimed hosting providers
in the industry today, what were the determining factors in
your decision to migrate all of your businesses to 2advanced.net? |
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2Advanced did a fantastic job on designing our site and we
wanted them to own all aspects of it. Our thinking was that
2Advanced would care more about the site if they owned it completely,
because they would have a vested interest in making sure the
site is up and running all the time. |
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What level of traffic does Skyworks currently sustain
on a monthly basis and how is performance during peak utilization? |
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In hits, we averaged almost 100,000 per month during the last
six months using 2Advanced.net. The performance of the site
has been great, even during high-traffic times like online Press
Events. |
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What does the future hold for Skyworks in terms of
hosting growth and needs? |
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For now, we are completely covered. |
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How convenient is it for you that 2Advanced was able
to expand its service offering to include hosting? And how would
the ability to offer a “one-stop-shop” affect decisions
for a web presence in the future? |
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Definitely convenient. Another reason we chose to host with
2advanced.net was because of their location. It’s nice
for us to know that our server is down the street. In fact,
we actually went down to the 2Advanced offices and looked at
it; which I had never done before with other hosts. Our server
was located in a very clean environment and was very organized,
so I felt secure with the status of our site. I trust the people
who are running it. |
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Briefly, can you provide us with an overview of how
you have embraced the 2advanced.net hosting offering? In particular,
how many servers and what other equipment or services do you
currently use 2advanced.net for? |
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Right about the time we were looking for a new hosting vendor,
we wanted to enhance the search capabilities on skyworksinc.com
with a Google search engine appliance. We needed one server
and figured that the right hosting partner would install our
Google application and make the hosting switch appear seamless
to the outside world. 2Advanced made it easy to work with them
to augment our current website offering and skyworksinc.com
users have been hailing the benefits ever since. |
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Where do you fall in the spectrum of quality of service
vs. the economies of price? How have these factors influenced
your decision to choose 2advanced.net as your Managed Service
Provider? |
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To me, ‘quality of service’ is the most important
factor when it comes to hosting. It directly relates to whether
the site is up or not, and whether or not we will get an immediate
response from the hosting team when issues do arise. Response
time with 2advanced.net is exceptional. We have direct access
to Tech Support—via personal mobile phone numbers—so
we can reach someone directly with any issues. And the cost
of the service was competitive. 2Advanced was the right fit
for us because they have the right mix of quality of service
and price. |
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In general, how has your overall hosting experience
with 2advanced.net been? More specifically, was your initial
transition to the 2advanced.net service painless and have service
levels remained constant with your expectations? |
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The physical transition has been painless. The 2Advanced designers
working on our site even got involved to make sure everything
went smoothly. Overall, we have experienced high quality service,
appropriate levels of uptime and immediate response to any issues
we may have had. |
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How would you compare your transition effort and continuing
service levels against your experiences with your previous hosting
providers? |
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We have changed hosting service providers three times now,
this last time we did it because we were pleased with the service
overall from 2Advanced and the experience of the individuals
who work there, our access to them and our trust in their team.
Our previous hosting provider fairly abruptly underwent a change
of management and we couldn’t get a hold of our contacts
anymore. Switching to 2Advanced was the right action for Skyworks. |
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Lastly, in the spirit of shameless self-promotion,
is there anything else you would like to say? |
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Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is the industry's leading wireless
semiconductor company focused on RF and complete semiconductor
system solutions for mobile communications applications. We
have a solid customer base that is steadily growing, so it is
extremely important to have a reliable hosting provider to rely
on so that all of our customers have access to the Skyworks
website, when they need it and 2advanced.net has been able to
deliver on all fronts. |
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Special thanks from the 2advanced.net team
to Rick Weber, Marketing Communications Manager of Skyworks
Inc, for taking the time to candidly answer our questions regarding
our service offering. |
