Hi Guys!
I'm really very happy to see the response my blog is getting. People are asking me about the best web hosting companies one should turn to. Well! I think this depends on your specific business needs coz there is no dearth of good service providers.....Oh! This just came to my mind.... Why not to make this today's topic of discussion and let me take you through the things that will help you to choose the best web hosting provider for your company:
1)
Before starting your search for the top web hosting provider, it will be good to first know the actual meaning of a good web host. What say? The web host is really a service provider who your website ( the tool of your online presence) on a server connecting to the Internet. Thus, when you think about finding the best web hosting company, ensure that its server runs fast and that the provider offers near total uptime since you don’t want your website to be inaccessible because of the bad server. Shud I move ahead? I think you are saying yes.... At times, its better to assume yourself. :-)
2)
Nowadays, you will find a multitude of web hosting companies boasting to have been offering standardized like the ability to handle or provide the best customer support either through phone, email or through the web. Cummon! When everyone will offer the same, why will you need to look oit for the unique one. So, think about out of the box features. Choose the one that offers you all managed services and hosting solutions under single roof. Ask about their list of services and see ;if they suit your requirements or not. If you guys wanna my suggestion, I'm the biggest fan of NaviSite Inc. It has got everything. Still, you can always shop around.
3)
Here comes the price. Choose the one which offers you the most competitive price but never compromise on the quality of services. Also, base your decision on popularity which can be judged by looking at awards won by that particular web hosting company, good web hosting reviews about it and whether it gets a lot of traffic or not. Next, you should look at reliability factor.
4) Since your business needs to be up all the time, always look out for 24x7 support. As such, its common with all the web hosting provider. Still check out whether you can depend on them. If you need 24-hour technical support that larger companies need then expect to pay substantially more.
That's all for today. Hope my readers will find out their answers to how to choose best web hosting and managed hosting companies from my post.
God Bless All.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
The Promise of Hosting Services
No doubt, hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. And this is one of the reasons why the market has become more attractive.
The domain of Web hosting services is further categorized into multiple segments including:
Managed hosting
Enterprise hosting
Email Hosting
Image Hosting
Colocation
Dedicated Hosting
Ah! there are so many of them......
Anyway lets start with the managed services first:
In today's competitive marketplace, businesspersons are looking for resources to save money while making the most of existing investments. Competition is forcing them to concentrate more on customer-facing operations and to allocate their non–core, back-end operations to vendors, which may include outsourcing network management and design. This is forcing more and more organizations to turn towards managed services as a way to conduct business.
But what does this actually mean? Let's intrude:
'Managed Services' is a broad platform denoting multiple, usually flexible, services and engagement models. It enables moving responsibility for operations or business process to an outside party. When there are limited resources, outsourcing shifts the burden of network responsibility away from the main operator to the equipment vendor.
Engagement models largely depend on the processes outsourced. For example, out-tasking is a model in which one process or functional area is managed by an external party – this is usually a specific pain point solution. A build-operate model means the service provider out-tasks implementation and transition as well as operation of a new service.
However, hosting represents a different solution in a different way. Here, the entire service is outsourced, while business process outsourcing concerns outsourcing a process and not a specific function; it is about looking for end-to-end efficiency within the process.
As opposed to the things that used to happen a decade before, the managed-services-as-engagement-models are quite organised and efficient enough. Now, most things have come up into the exposure. Industry people know what works and what does not, thereby significantly lowering the risk in choosing this model as a way to do business.
Well! I will soon be back with more.....
The domain of Web hosting services is further categorized into multiple segments including:
Managed hosting
Enterprise hosting
Email Hosting
Image Hosting
Colocation
Dedicated Hosting
Ah! there are so many of them......
Anyway lets start with the managed services first:
In today's competitive marketplace, businesspersons are looking for resources to save money while making the most of existing investments. Competition is forcing them to concentrate more on customer-facing operations and to allocate their non–core, back-end operations to vendors, which may include outsourcing network management and design. This is forcing more and more organizations to turn towards managed services as a way to conduct business.
But what does this actually mean? Let's intrude:
'Managed Services' is a broad platform denoting multiple, usually flexible, services and engagement models. It enables moving responsibility for operations or business process to an outside party. When there are limited resources, outsourcing shifts the burden of network responsibility away from the main operator to the equipment vendor.
Engagement models largely depend on the processes outsourced. For example, out-tasking is a model in which one process or functional area is managed by an external party – this is usually a specific pain point solution. A build-operate model means the service provider out-tasks implementation and transition as well as operation of a new service.
However, hosting represents a different solution in a different way. Here, the entire service is outsourced, while business process outsourcing concerns outsourcing a process and not a specific function; it is about looking for end-to-end efficiency within the process.
As opposed to the things that used to happen a decade before, the managed-services-as-engagement-models are quite organised and efficient enough. Now, most things have come up into the exposure. Industry people know what works and what does not, thereby significantly lowering the risk in choosing this model as a way to do business.
Well! I will soon be back with more.....
Friday, November 21, 2008
Why To Choose Managed Hosting Services?
Are you looking out for investing in managed hosting for your company‘s website or any other application? If yes, then you are moving into the right way. There are the companies that don’t want to explore outside sources and generally end up with costly as well as risky proposition. Well! You can save your business with the help of managed hosting services.
Outlined below are the reasons why you should buy managed hosting services from the third party service:
No down time – Your website is the source of your online presence. This makes it important that kit is always working to ensure visitors’ satisfaction. If you are among the people who handle their web site on their own dedicated server, you will find that your site hangs a lot. After all, servers are really difficult to keep running. Moreover, they require regular updates. Here managed hosting services come to your rescue.
If you don’t have a full fledged IT staff to take care of technical issues, you may end up waiting a while for a service. On contrary to this, managed hosting services bring an in-house staff as well as expertise of proficient who handle all the things from their data centre. Furthermore, most services have a duplicate of your site or application ready to run if one version ends up going down for repairs or maintenance. So no downtime!!!
Better equipment – Setting up a dedicated server in your own office can be really expensive. This will not only need you to hire experts to help with the installation but you will also have to purchase all the necessary hardware equipments. And you need to keep the pace with your budget as well, so you're not going to be able to afford great equipments.
Availing managed hosting services from the third party allows you to leverage the benefits of great equipments without actually buying or maintaining them. These people are said to have the best hardware because they want it to last. Their business depends on its longevity.
Better security – You must have been acquainted of the fact of the hackers getting into company information or of viruses causing a nuisance and corrupting necessary files. Since managed hosting providers specialize in IT, they can take better care of your business security. They know exactly what steps to take to protect their clients' applications.
Improved back-up – Taking back ups can seem to be a nasty as well as time consuming task but are, of course, essential to ensure safety of important data stored in your systems hard drives or servers. Managed hosting providers also offer back-ups for whatever you want to save on their equipment.
Exceptional technical support – Getting the best technical support services can be really challenging especially when you don’t have a proper IT staff. And in case of extreme circumstances like site downtime or bad server connection, you need to act immediately to prevent loss of customers. The good news is that managed hosting providers offer 24x7 technical support.
Outlined below are the reasons why you should buy managed hosting services from the third party service:
No down time – Your website is the source of your online presence. This makes it important that kit is always working to ensure visitors’ satisfaction. If you are among the people who handle their web site on their own dedicated server, you will find that your site hangs a lot. After all, servers are really difficult to keep running. Moreover, they require regular updates. Here managed hosting services come to your rescue.
If you don’t have a full fledged IT staff to take care of technical issues, you may end up waiting a while for a service. On contrary to this, managed hosting services bring an in-house staff as well as expertise of proficient who handle all the things from their data centre. Furthermore, most services have a duplicate of your site or application ready to run if one version ends up going down for repairs or maintenance. So no downtime!!!
Better equipment – Setting up a dedicated server in your own office can be really expensive. This will not only need you to hire experts to help with the installation but you will also have to purchase all the necessary hardware equipments. And you need to keep the pace with your budget as well, so you're not going to be able to afford great equipments.
Availing managed hosting services from the third party allows you to leverage the benefits of great equipments without actually buying or maintaining them. These people are said to have the best hardware because they want it to last. Their business depends on its longevity.
Better security – You must have been acquainted of the fact of the hackers getting into company information or of viruses causing a nuisance and corrupting necessary files. Since managed hosting providers specialize in IT, they can take better care of your business security. They know exactly what steps to take to protect their clients' applications.
Improved back-up – Taking back ups can seem to be a nasty as well as time consuming task but are, of course, essential to ensure safety of important data stored in your systems hard drives or servers. Managed hosting providers also offer back-ups for whatever you want to save on their equipment.
Exceptional technical support – Getting the best technical support services can be really challenging especially when you don’t have a proper IT staff. And in case of extreme circumstances like site downtime or bad server connection, you need to act immediately to prevent loss of customers. The good news is that managed hosting providers offer 24x7 technical support.
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