Customer expectations when using our best-effort support
This article is to outline customer expectations when using our best-effort support and clarifies how it works.
Providing support without a professional plan associated
Except for the issues which we are directly responsible and services with a professional support plan associated, we provide best-effort support in all cases.
In simple terms, best-effort support can be explained as doing our best or all possible efforts to help you. In legal terms, it means doing to the best of our ability all reasonable endeavours to provide you with support.
Expectations of our customer support concerning issues
What you can expect for support requests concerning issues, including but not limited to:
- my WordPress website stopped working after installing a plugin or changing a setting.
- I stopped receiving emails after changing a DNS entry in my domain.
- the web server on my unmanaged server crashed.
We recommend to always create backups before doing any changes that you don't fully understand very well how it works. If possible, undoing your previous actions or restoring a backup specifically to the changes you made could be the faster option to resolve your issue.
In case it's not possible to restore a backup or you would rather not to, you can expect to receive instructions to help you with your issue whenever possible. If you don't know how to do a specific task of the instructions we sent, independently of being related to the tools we provide to manage your service or your web application, we will send an article with additional instructions concerning that specific task.
If you keep having issues or difficulties following the instructions we sent, we will do our best to help you troubleshoot the issue or by clarifying the instructions even more — depending on whichever is the case.
In case you cannot follow our instructions for some reason, even after we provide illustrative examples, which may include images or videos, we will send you a quote to resolve the issue on your behalf.
Kindly note, in order to avoid possible abuses of our best-effort support, we will point you to previously opened support requests for repeated issues. For example, let us suppose you keep insisting on installing plugins on your websites that keep causing the same or similar issues. In these cases where we have already helped you in the past and the solution is the same, we will point you to the same instructions already sent previously.
For unknown or undocumented issues, depending on the issue, we may have to request more information to reproduce the issue. We may request a video from you to show us how to reproduce the issue and/or request your permission to access your service.
Expectations of our customer support when asking to do a specific task
You contact us and ask for our help to perform some tasks, including but not limited to:
- "I need help to change a DNS entry on my service."
- "Assist me in creating an email account."
- "How do I access the FTP service?"
In these cases where you would like to know how to do a certain task, you can expect to receive instructions to help you with it whenever possible. If you don't know how to do a specific task of the instructions we sent, independently of being related to the tools we provide to manage your service or your web application, we will send an article with additional instructions concerning that specific task.
If you keep having difficulties following the instructions we sent, we will do and try our best to clarify the instructions even more — depending on whichever is the case.
In case you cannot follow our instructions for any reason, even after we provide illustrative examples, which may include images or videos, we will send you a quote to do the task on your behalf.
Kindly note, in order to avoid possible abuses of our best-effort support, we will point you to previously opened support requests for repeated tasks. For example, let us suppose you keep asking how to create an email account on your web hosting service. In these cases where we have already helped you in the past and the solution is the same, we will point you to the same instructions already sent previously.
New Customers
We offer a free migration service with all of our web hosting plans (incl. reseller plans) and managed services (e.g., managed vps plans) to help you avoid the cumbersome task of migrating the data yourself.
Besides that, as a new customer, during the first 30 days, you receive priority support through Live Chat and other similar contact methods (e.g. Telegram) to help you resolve any potencialpotential issues more quickly and help you get started with our service.
After the first 30 days, you may still request support by email and tickets at any timetime, while support providedrequests bybeing asked via live chat or similar contact methods may require an appointment.
If you pay more than 250 USD / month in services (excl. domains, licenses and SSL Certificates), best-effort support requests can be made though Live Chat or similar contact methods without requiring an appointment or a professional support plan.
Professional Support Plans
Our professional support plans arecould availablebe an option for companies requiring to receive support directly through Live Chat or similar contact methods without requiring to schedule an appointment. Signing up for a support plan could also be an option if you prefer to outsource tasks or resolve issues that may be outside of our responsibility to resolve.
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High-quality services on a budget, please do not consider you will have "your system administrator, developer or IT consultant for $5/month" (independently of the amount you are paying). Once again, you may subscribe to an Unlimited Professional Service plan if you would like to have our team working and executing tasks on your behalf.budget
Lastly, weWe may resolve issues outside of our responsibility (e.g., on your WordpressWordPress installation) to help you get started within the first 30 days, but please do not assume we will keep doing it for freefree.
We provide high-quality services on a budget. Getting "your system administrator, developer, or IT consultant for $5/month" — independently of the amount you are paying — is not part of the deal. We suggest subscribing to a professional support plan if you would like to have any of our team members working on tasks on your behalf.
Reseller Web Hosting Services
If you signed up for a plan which allows you to resell web hosting plans, please understand that the prices we charge in any of our plans don't include any kind of support to your customers. In other words, your customers contact you for support, and then you may contact us for support whenever you feel necessary.
These plans contains more resources, being cheaper per / GB of disk space when compared with web hosting services being sold to end-customers. The objective is to give you a discount for buying more, but also give you a discount since you or your company will be ones providing support for end-customers.
It's expected that for each support request that you take note of the future.instructions provided for future similar situations, avoiding recorrent support requests of the same topic. In case you are unable t
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