Application Hosting

Application hosting is an attractive alternative for businesses wishing to opt out of committing to the time and resources required in order to maintain a server environment in their own offices. Remotely hosting your server and application hosting not only takes the worry and effort from your business, but you have the security of a full service guarantee and back-up facilities.

By deciding to host your applications on servers in our datacentres, you can benefit from:

• High levels of resilience
• Increased redundancy
• Reliability with guaranteed connectivity 24/7
• Cost efficient with the freeing up of time and resourcesfor IT staff
• Reduce overheads and have access to facilities/bandwidth options not physically or financially feasible to supply at company offices
• Vital data stored in a maximum-security facility
• Offsite back-up abilities
• Award winning technical expertise and support 24/7
• Multiple location access through secure VPN (Virtual Private Network)
• Fixed monthly fee

We can either host your own server at our datacentre, or we can provide the server for you. - by Datanet

Scalability - Putting it to Work For You

When working with an application hosting service or a managed hosting company it will be in your best interest if they fully understand scalability and how it can best benefit you and your company. Simply defined, scalability is the use of scalable code with infrastructure. It is imperative, for scalability to be of maximum benefit, that infrastructure and scalable code be carefully planned to work with and enhance each other.

When traffic to your site is extremely high is the exact time you don’t want your site to be unavailable — this is the very time you need accessibility most. A scalable system (scalable code working with infrastructure) will increase efficiency in proportion to the resources available. It is the responsibility of the managing host to be certain those resources remain available.

In order to provide consistent reliable service they make certain your needs are met at all times. If you experience an unexpected, huge burst of traffic to your website it could become overwhelmed if the proper steps are not in place. How can this be avoided? The top managed hosting companies are ready for just about anything. They have multiple servers available to host your website. This is where the importance of scalability is clearly seen. If the first server is overwhelmed, shutdown or otherwise negatively impacted, a scalable system will allocate extra processors from the second server, third, fourth, fifth, etc. until all of your websites demands are met.

Your managed host provider will have analyzed your market and technology trends well in advance.- by Romain Baudry