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Founded (Year)  1992
Headquarters  Phoenix, AZ
Leadership Tim Uzzanti, President
Employees  30
 
Strength
CrystalTech is one of the largest privately held web hosting companies and has made a profit from its inception.  CrystalTech has no contracts, enjoys a 75% referral rate (the largest in the industry), and has the most thorough/powerful control centers to manage shared and dedicated hosting accounts in the business. We offer 24x7 toll-free technical support, 365 days a year by Network Administrators with no phone queues.

Main Customers
Bell South, Bell Atlantic, Microsoft®, Comptia Certifications, JcrewImports, Serta etc...

 
Company Description
Founded in 1992, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. has grown to be one of the largest, debt-free, privately owned companies in the web hosting industry. CrystalTech hosts customers in over 74 countries, ranging from Fortune 100 customers to small businesses. CrystalTech.com receives 100's of millions of visits each day on the Internet. We provide this service using a state of the art network operation center which includes: redundant power systems, redundant air conditioning, redundant network connectivity, redundant network transportation (land and satellite), all in a raised floor, security access card and code secured environment.
 
Company and Website's Objectives
Provide the level of service customers expect and require.  Why should a customer wait 10mins, 20mins, or even 30min on the phone for a support technician?  Why should it require 24hrs to answer a support e-mail?  Allowing customers to manage their accounts almost completely from a web based Control Center, sizing servers so that uptime truly means 99.5% or better, provide an in-depth Knowledge Base with Video help to walk customers through applications and tools is also beneficial in providing Quality Technical Support.  Putting the tools in our customers' hands allows our Network Administrators to focus on customers requests or issues immediately, both through toll free phone support and e-mail.  Also having an entire staff of Network Administrators enables us to give immediate answers and solutions without the common delays received from Support Desk individuals reading from queue cards.
 
Briefly describe a few top-notch hosting features that CrystalTech is providing for its clients.
  • The most through control center in the industry.
  • Extensive Knowledge Base, reseller friendly, with video help. 
  • Public forums allowing all CrystalTech customers to communicate with each other.
  • No Contracts 
  • 24x7 Toll Free support from Network Administrators with no queues
  • Support emails answered within 2 hours with extremely difficult questions/situations answered no later than 24hrs.
 
What are your top three goals to achieve in year 2002 at CrystalTech?

We provide an exceptional service, our goal is to simply maintain that standard in every area of our company.  Sometimes, it is more difficult to maintain a high level of service and expectations from our customers than anything else, especially during periods of high growth. Maintaining a 75% referral rate has allowed CrystalTech to fund multi million dollar projects (IE: the Control Center / Data Centers) with no outside funding. Money that would be required for advertising has been used to better the company which in turn increased its customer satisfaction and continues our growth. Improving service and support means; increased tools, continue to provide the most powerful and user friendly control center in the hosting industry, provide public forums for customers to communicate freely, provide archives of articles with video help to walk customers through difficult tasks and much, much more.  Doing each of these well, makes supporting customers through e-mail and toll-free phone support something we can offer within minutes instead of hours or days.

 
How do you create awareness of, or market, your hosting services?

We have never marketed CrystalTech. This is something we will be doing, not to increase growth, but to brand CrystalTech Web Hosting Inc.  CrystalTech has grown 150% per year, 10% to 15% per month and nearly 18% in January 2002!  75% of this unbelievable growth is from referrals which we believe demonstrates our unparalleled service and support.  The additional 25% is from articles and interviews about CT, partnerships that CT has made in the industry and also all the different resources on the Internet like News Groups/Forums/Search Engines where CT provides expert answers/opinions to help others in the industry move forward.

 
How does a prospective customer take full control of his/her dedicated server?

CrystalTech believes a site should be sent out / provisioned within hours, and should be completely functional unlike other hosts who deliver FTP and later provision mail/stats/dns etc.  Once CT customers receive their information, they can maintain every aspect of their site inside the Control Center.  Tools like Visual Studio, FrontPage, Cold Fusion and many other tools can be used to maintain the site as well.

 
CrystalTech has recognized the surge for the demand of hosting services since 1995. What are the basic steps taken to ensure continued success of 15% growth per month?

CrystalTech's goal is to continue to grow at a healthy pace; we do not aspire to grow "fast or drastically" we try to keep our growth rates controlled so that our service and support is never sacrificed. Currently, CrystalTech's growth rate of 150% per year has been managed very well as overall customer opinions judged by its current 75% referral rate demonstrates this.  Growing a company slowly, demonstrates stability and security, now and in the future.  It is very evident what negative effects building fast business, utilizing high amounts of venture capital, carrying heavy debt, and more can do to a company in the present internet market.  We will continue to follow our current business practices now and in the future so that our current level of service, support and stability is maintained.

 
 
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