Top 3 Advantages In Outsourcing Your Hosting

In this internet era, every business requires an online presence. When it comes to deploying applications online, organizations will always have a doubt whether to build the infrastructure or outsource the hosting. Being a 2 decade old hosting company, SiliconHouse has seen many organisation the same problem and finally they come up with outsourcing the hosting reasons for the following reasons. Many of our customers are enterprise organization who initially had server infrastructure in their company and due to the below reasons they outsourced to us to host their applications. We would like to share few of the points which can help your management to take the decision easily.

Network Uptime & Speed

Network Uptime & Speed is one of the most important factor for the clients to choose the outsourced model. Because if there is any lack in network availability then it directly affects the data delivery and slowness to the end users. This ultimately reduces the productivity of the employees and affects the business growth. When the organisation is having multiple branches, then they should have dedicated internet line to have stable performance. More over considering the cost factor they cannot put multiple internet options for handling routing issues in one line. So these two things are taken care by the data center. Since we deal with huge number of servers, we will have rock solid vlan in multiple locations. In order to handle any routing or any other issues, multiple internet lines will be implemented in order to provide continuous data flow in and out of the server. Hence availability of the internet will be there always. Highest backbone connectivity and port speed for the server will be offered to deliver the data. Starting from 1GBPS port speed to upto 10GBPS port speed will be available in the vlan. Based on the client budget the client can choose the highest port speed. By default we offer 1GBPS port speed to our clients which will give very stable and good performance. Poweroutage should be managed well to maintain the application up and running all the time. If you are building your servers in your local premises the power should be available all the time even during natural calamities. But in case of data centers they will have very good power back up system.

Hardware Availability

Hardware is the another factor which will be chosen carefully for the applications. It might look cheaper to buy the hardware for implementing in the local premises initially. But hardware maintenance and adapting to new model hardware over the period of years will have greater impact in the cost which will not visible initially. The technologies changes every day and new brand hardwares are released in very short period of team by providers . So adapting to new hardwares is very important over the period of time. When you go for local premises, then every particular period of time you have to spend the time and effort on choosing the hardware and implementing it. Moreover scaling up and scaling down will be difficult. But these can be managed easily when you outsource it. Because hosting companies like us will have abundant hardware inventory all through the years and adapt to new latest processor and hardware components. Starting from lowest configuration to highest configuration hosting companies like us can provide the best. So it is very easy for us to deliver or upgrade the clients to latest hardware frequently. You can scale up and scale down the hardware according to your requirements with proper discussion with the provider. If there is any relocation of your business place or any natural calamity in the location, there rebuilding the infrastructure again is very difficult in offline premises and considerable amount of down time can happen to your application. But with hosting company they will have multiple vlan, so it can be managed very well.

Expert Suggestion & Support

Support team is the another big part of investment when it comes to offline premises. It may look cheaper options to build in the local premises, but putting the expert people or team to maintain is very difficult. Because organization main core activity is only on their software development and growth of the business in acquiring their clients. So when the business core activity is not server management, then investing team on that activity is not a wise decision. More over data center and hosting companies will have already certified technicians to manage it. So you can get those expert suggestion for your serves at any point of time during the load spike or scale up your infrastructure. Because those technicians has lot of exposure in these areas where they work with several servers day in and day out. Server admins in hosting companies will have wide range of hosting tools for monitoring the server and they will know the common security threat happening globally. So they can alert the clients accordingly.The server availability will be monitored 24X7X365 days in the hosting server infrastructure. So if there is any hardware or network related problems. It will be notified to the customer and corresponding actions will be taken. But in local premises until you have solid team to monitor it, it will be difficult to keep your applications up and running all the time. Even if there is any load spike, expertise in hosting companies can easily guide,how things can be corrected. As they see many servers load they can easily figure out where will be the issue.More over offline premises should be take care at greatest care as all the system inside the network should be fully installed with genuine os and antivirus. Because most of the viruses start from the infected system which can affect the network easily.So putting a team to audit frequently in the company will be difficult and more over if the organization has multiple branches then it will be more difficult task. But in case of data center all the machine will be installed with genuine operating system which is patched properly.Building and maintaining a 24/7 in-house support team is expensive. Employee availability will be difficult in all the times and if the current team leaves then hiring again a new time will require your effort and time. You need to put proper machine parts,cooling systems and if there is any issue in these hardware components you need to have experts at right time to fix it. If there is any delay it will affect your productivity of the employees who access the online applications.

So if your main focus of your business is should be your applications, then outsourcing the backend server infrastructure to hosting experts will be best ideal choice and put a small team to maintain the backup in the local premises.Unless the company which creates value because of its IT operations, they should outsource the hosting. Over all when you calculate over the period of years, maintaining the application with outsource hosting companies will be cheaper considering the savings on initial investment, scaling up the infrastructure, maintenance, expertise employees for management.