Cloud Services

Source code and hosting go hand-in-hand. In today's all-pervasive connected world, just having the next big thing is not enough – you also need some way to connect it to the rest of humanity. Your IT Team are absolute experts when it comes to setting up and maintaining Hosting solution environments that connect the developer to the hosting solution, simplifying the process of building and deploying websites and apps.

Once you've built your solution, how do you go about hosting it?

Whether it's a website, mobile app or multi-system integration, you'll need to trial at least part of it on the internet so your users can connect.

Your choice of web hosting provider is of great significance to your business, determining the reliability and future scalability of your website or product.

Having sound advice and correct support from the get-go avoids all the hassle and complexity when your business takes off or expands. 

This is why choosing the correct hosting service is crucial. 

Your IT Team are consummate experts at advising and tailoring hosting applications to your business need over a wide variety of platforms. 

Read on to find out how. 

Hosting solutions come in four main 'flavours' each with certain pros and cons. These are:

• Shared
• Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
• Dedicated
• Cloud-based

This is where Your IT Team's 20+ years of industry experience comes in super-handy in what can otherwise be quite a complex decision. 

Our in-depth understanding of these hosting solutions and strong relationships with hosting platforms like Umbraco Cloud and Microsoft Azure means we can maximise your website performance and stability and responsivity by tailoring the correct hosting environment to your business needs, regardless of whether you are a small, medium or global enterprise. 

The next section outlines these options in more detail.

SHARED

Shared hosting is a popular option for businesses wanting to keep costs low. A shared web hosting provider will host multiple sites, owned by multiple customers on just one server.  The website owners share the server operating costs, so pricing is lower than dedicated hosting or VPS, usually less than $10 per month. However, this affects the server’s ability to transfer data quickly or efficiently when your hosting neighbours have a traffic spike. This often leads to website crashes and limited scalability for business growth.

DEDICATED HOSTING:

Dedicated hosting allocates an entire server to your website so your business has total control over customising resources and software.  No pooling of costs. No sharing of power. Sounds great, right? Except that it’s much more expensive - making it more suited to websites with robust technical demands. Dedicated hosting could be beneficial for:

• Websites with extremely high-traffic volume
• Sites handling large financial transactions
• High software customisation or control requirements
• Businesses needing a boutique or specific operating system

Dedicated hosting versus shared hosting represent the capitalist versus socialist hosting options. 

VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVERS (VPS)

In short, VPS represents the middle ground between shared and dedicated hosting.

VPS fences off guaranteed resources from one physical server, into multiple virtual machines or ‘servers’.  This means that your website data is not shared with other server users - its private.  Overall, the server power is shared, without the higher cost or jeopardy to website function. 

The pros are:

• Cost effectiveness for websites outgrowing shared servers
• Customisation and control of server settings and software install.
• Scalability of resources like CPU cores, RAM and storage as traffic grows.
• Dedicated Bandwidth and disk space, ensuring reliable performance
• The cons are:
• Need for technical expertise to optimise server administration and function.
• Support and Maintenance may or may not be included in the VPS plan
• Improper allocation of resources
• Limited Hardware control - VPS users have a virtual server, not a real one!

If your website is running slow, has increasing traffic, throws up lots of server errors or needs new custom software, it may be time to consider switching to VPS.

CLOUD HOSTING:

Cloud hosting  is about deploying and running websites, mobile or web apps, databases, and other services using virtualized, distributed and connected servers offered by cloud providers such as Microsoft, Umbraco, Amazon or Google.

Instead of owning your own physical VPS or dedicated server, you access shared computing resources managed by the cloud provider company.  This means they take care of maintenance, security, software updates, and load balancing across global data centres. 

This allows your business to leverage tremendous computing power, on demand.

The benefits of cloud hosting are:

• Scalability to handle spikes in traffic
• Redundancy and uptime with automatic failover
• Pay-as-you-go costs rather than fixed server expenses
• Access to enterprise-level infrastructure
• Superb collaboration from anywhere with internet access

With cloud hosting, you rent computing resources like storage, RAM, and CPU power from large data centre operators. This gives tremendous flexibility and power, allowing you to scale up or down your website hosting as needed. So instead of purchasing physical servers outright, you pay only for the amount of cloud resources you actually consume. 

This “pay-as-you-go” approach avoids upfront capital expenditure, so your initial business overheads are minimised.

Cloud hosting models are unique in that they have a truly global computing foundation without the exorbitant cost or limited scalability of shared or VPS server models.

Robert and his team are absolute masters in understanding hosting options . 

Stick with us and your website will be fast, secure and regularly backed up.

We have robust partnerships with all  leading cloud and VPS server hosting platforms to make sure your website has speed and performance maximised for your budget.

We personally set up, monitor and manage your servers, so you don’t get stuck dealing with faceless ‘middlemen’ or poor customer service.