Dedicated mail relay
An existing data centre customer sends a large amount of email on behalf of their clients. They do not have email or SMTP experience in-house and so asked us to provide a fully managed solution for sending outbound email. Within a very short timeframe we were able to provide a solution with the following benefits:

• Dedicated SMTP relay for their application to send email through
• Automatic rewrite of SMTP envelope sender address to allow bounces to be returned to a specific recipient and processed, without the need for any changes in their software
• Detailed logging of email traffic
• Ability to implement correct SPF support simply by asking the client to add an "include:" entry to their domain's DNS settings
• Ability to also support digital signatures (DKIM) by again making a simple addition to the client's DNS settings

From our customer's perspective, one of the biggest benefits is that we fully manage the system, and can quickly provide detailed information on the path an email took if any issues are raised.

Client FTP space
A support issue was raised with us because a customer wanted to use their web hosting space to allow clients to upload and download artwork files. After a discussion with the customer, it was clear that using their existing website account was not the right solution for this.

We provided a standalone managed system which allows them to easily create any number of individual FTP accounts for their clients, along with the ability to create multiple administration users.

• Simple portal to allow management of clients and administration accounts. Administration accounts have access to the portal, but can also access all client folders via the FTP service
• TLS security required for all connections using the current best practises, including support for the latest TLS 1.3 standard
• Fully backed up daily via our Data Centre backup service, with the ability to restore previous versions of files if necessary
• Supported and managed by our experiences technicians
• Ability to only pay for the required space, but quickly upgrade if needed.

Highly secure dedicated server
We were approached by a web development agency building a site for a customer who required a dedicated server with very specific security and support requirements. As part of this we provided the following solution:

• Standalone server with encrypted storage and dedicated firewall
• Minimum TLS 1.2 required for not only web traffic, but all connections including file transfer & SMTP
• Managed web application firewall to protect against attacks via brute force & common attack vectors
• Large (>=2048 bit) key sizes for all encryption keys
• Extended support with an extended SLA and the ability to fail-over to backup equipment in the event of a hardware failure
• All email traffic not only requiring TLS, but also digital signatures

3rd party test showing very high TLS security results.