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Merry Krystmas!

It seems almost unbelievable, but we’re coming to the end of 2023 already. It’s been a very busy but productive year for Krystal, and we’ve got a lot planned for 2024. Here are some highlights and important information regarding our service over the holidays.

Enhancing your support experience

Between Katapult upgrades, migrating to our new private datacentre space, the rollout of Identity and the 4-day work week trial this year has been INCREDIBLY busy for the support team. Support touches across tickets, live chats and phone calls total over 125,000 for the year! Up a massive 23.9% over last year. Unfortunately, that’s meant that getting help from our team has been a little slower than you’d expect at times and I’d like to apologise for that.

I’m not prepared to sacrifice the award-winning quality we're known for, so we’ve hired an additional 5 support team members this year, taking us to a total of 22 UK-based support staff. I believe this makes us the largest UK web hosting support team in the country. Going forward, I promise that we’ll continue to build capacity whilever you need us. Thank you for your patience and understanding during 2023. 2024 will be better than “business as usual”.

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Krystal support over Christmas

We’ll be closing our phones and live chat from 18:00 on Friday 15th December to 09:00 on Tuesday 2nd January. Ticket support will continue to be operational throughout the holiday period.

It’s always highly beneficial when clients self-serve, and this is doubly true over the holiday period. If you haven’t yet, please check out (and bookmark!) the Krystal Hosting Knowledge Base - it contains the accumulated wisdom of a thousand geeks! You might learn a new skill or tip and leave the team able to respond to those critical issues more promptly.

If our Knowledge Base doesn’t have the answer you need, you can always still contact us via support ticket.

Emergency out-of-hours phone support is included with Onyx and Business plans. In an emergency, just call us on 020 8050 1337 then press 3 and enter your PIN. You can find a PIN reminder in your Client Area.

If you’re thinking about upgrading your hosting service to enjoy out-of-hours support, or any of the other premium benefits, we can move you before Christmas with minimal disruption. Just reply to this email to get started.

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Krystal named UK’s Best Hosted Service - again!

In late November, we were delighted to win the Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) “Best Hosted Service” Award for the 3rd time! The ISPA Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious in our industry, so it’s great to achieve this recognition, particularly in a very busy year. I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the whole Krystal team who work hard year-round to make us the best at what we do, and our valued clients for their patronage over the past 12 months.

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Thanks for your support!

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families Happy Holidays, and once again thank you for your continued support during what’s been a year of massive change and progress.

As always, please get in touch if you'd like to talk.

Merry Krystmas,

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Simon Blacker - Founder & CEO (Let’s connect on LinkedIn!)

p.s. Heard about our industry-first “Switch Credits” initiative? If you’re currently hosted by a large multinational (full list at https://krystal.uk/switch) we’ll give you free time on a new Krystal plan equal to the value left on your current hosting plan. Refer someone to Switch Credits and we’ll credit a plan of your choice A FREE MONTH! There’s no limit on how many times you can refer.