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With almost every organization turning online to promote their products and services to its targeted customers, it becomes important for every entrepreneur to look for the best professional, who would provide the right hosting services at affordable rates.
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September 12, 2013 — Savvis announced on Thursday that it recently won a $ 1.1 million, three-year contract for providing cloud hosting to the Federal Communications Commission.
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This article is an information about the reasons on investing in dedicated servers.
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No matter what new technologies get incorporated into the hosting world, there will always be a place for the dedicated server hosting account. It doesn’t necessarily make the host the most money: squeezing a few hundred accounts on a shared server does that. But it’s a market need that will never go away.
Web hosting companies to this day respond to this demand by loading up their dedicated server plans with as many goodies as they can to lure in more fish. But which ones should you bite at, and which ones should you swim by? Here is a list of some common dedicated server options, and how much they actually give you.
Bandwidth
A lot of at-home users have been hit with throttling or bandwidth usage charges for playing their World of Warcraft or downloading just a few too many Transformers movies. The reason your ISP doesn’t let you slide on this is that they are just as crunched on costs for it as you are. Bandwidth costs are one of the most inelastic of all services that any host can offer.
So if one host is giving you a much better deal on it than another, and you think there’s a good chance that you might actually need that much, you can strongly consider going with them on the basis of that alone. The chances that a host will let you “slide” for going over are slim, no matter how good your reputation with them is.
Advertising credits
The important thing to remember with advertising credits that come with a hosting account is that the dollar values that you receive aren’t “real” values in any way. They are just the cost of a certain type of advertising block on that site. If, say FaceBook, were to double all their ad rates tomorrow, many hosting companies would likely follow suit by doubling, or at least increasing their offerings. You would still be getting about the same advertising placement…mostly.
Saying this does neglect the fact that if FaceBook did do this, less people would be able to afford it, and you’d wind up with a higher listing by attrition. That does highlight the ambiguity with this service, though. Major web sites seldom release the algorithms they use for how someone gets a higher page rank or ad frequency rate. Worse, these algorithms can often change without notice. Your $ 50 might get you page 1 with Google today, and page 42 tomorrow.
This should not imply that advertising credits are worthless. A lot of webmasters plan on advertising on these sites anyway: for them, these credits can’t hurt. How much it will help, though, is the great unknown. If you do want one good rule of thumb, it’s better to have your advertising credits spread out.
Uptime Guarantees
We’ve covered this one before but it bears repeating: this is all shine. It’s not that most hosts won’t actually achieve this, assuming that they haven’t set the bar ludicrously high with a parade of 9′s. It’s that life is simply too chaotic. As the old proverb goes, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
No host would survive long if your site went down much as it is. Customers don’t need a calculator in front of them to know that their host is reliable. On the other hand if a comet struck a web host, few would blame them for taking just a second to get your site back up while they looked for a broom.
Backup recovery
This, on the other hand, is one that you want to place a high value upon. If you would believe it, there are still plenty of hosts that take the view that your backups are your responsibility. If your machine dies, oh well.
Then there are also hosts who realize the kind of business that the above hosts are losing and want to claim them for their own. There are a wide variety of ways that hosts will guarantee this. They are all good. Look especially for speed of recovery, redundant data centers, and manual recovery options as things that are worth the extra buck.
24/7 support
This one is only worthless because no host at this stage would be without it. True, there won’t be someone staring at a process chart for your server all night, and you may not be able to necessarily get a hold of a tech support worker for basic questions.
But what goes on with your machine could be going on with the rest of the network. Furthermore, even if they are not guaranteeing support, if they see your server down, your host knows full well that taking 30 seconds to walk over and hit the reboot switch because they “just happened to see it was down” is a great way to keep your loyalty.
Root access
We’ll close our list with one that you will not see often. If you do, take it, but with a grain of salt.
Root access is great for you. You don’t need to be told the functionality that this gives you. If you find out about a serious software bug or need some kernel recompiled fast, you don’t have to wait for a tech worker, and you don’t have to hope that they do it right. The back and forth that you get from this kind of a problem as you quote error messages to each other can be a true pain and time waster.
However, if your host does offer it, step back and take a look at them. Do they look like a fly-by-night host, or are they around for the long term? When a company allows this they are opening themselves up to danger if the customer doesn’t know what they are doing. If they look like they are established enough and organized enough to handle it when a customer does something that makes the network hiccup, then this is a good thing. If they look like someone who will be chasing their tail trying to find the problem, this means that this service could negatively affect you even if it’s not you who used it recklessly. Not being affected by other users was the whole point of getting a dedicated server in the first place.
Fun fact: In 2010, companies spent $ 21.5 billion on cloud computing services.
Experts estimate that by 2015 the total cost of all businesses using the cloud will be around $ 72.9 billion. The cloud — this new technology that is heavily used by mammoth corporations like Google, Skype, and Amazon — is here to stay.
But does cloud computing make sense for YOUR business? Should you move to the cloud?
In this article I will explain the pros and cons of business cloud computing services and you can decide for yourself if it is something you would like to try for your company.
One thing is certain: Cloud computing helps small businesses compete with large businesses. This is because you will have the same tools at your disposal.
Small businesses can now use affordable and robust web applications to accomplish pretty much anything, from document management to email hosting to enterprise resource planning. Cloud apps like Gmail, Dropbox, and Salesforce are remarkable because large enterprises, tiny organizations, and ordinary people can all benefit from them.
It’s all about cost reduction.
Using the cloud can reduce or eliminate the need for an IT staff. Software updates, maintenance, and server hardware upgrades are all managed by the people that created the software. That means less hassle and lower costs.
Also, the cloud moves as fast as your business expands, which means it’s infinitely scalable. When an ordinary website gets so much traffic that it exceeds the server’s capacities, the site goes down. In the cloud, the website scales to meet the demand.
Paying for cloud hosting is similar to paying for your electric/water bill. You only pay for what you use.
Cloud computing also enhances collaboration. You can access data from any computer with the internet, and use collaborative web applications to communicate and get things done.
This makes it much easier for teams collaborating in different locations.
Not everything about using the cloud is good. It’s time to visit the cons and leave it up to you to weigh the different sides.
One major issue is data security. You can never be too certain who has access to your data, especially with the increased prevalence of hacking and cyber attacks.
There’s also a chance for data loss. Not too long ago, many users of Evernote, a popular note-taking cloud application, were affected by data loss. Evernote backs up user data to six different places, but a one-in-a-million fluke was still able to cause data loss affecting over 6,000 users.
Another issue is that cloud apps aren’t entirely future-proof. It may not be possible to export your data into a format you can easily use elsewhere. And what happens if you cancel your subscription or your account is deleted? These are all things you should consider before implementing cloud applications into your business processes.
If you do decide to move to the cloud, here are some tips that will be beneficial to you:
A guest post by Derek Conjar.