If you are looking for security, control and high performance reliability but don't want the hassle of managing your own hardware, dedicated server hosting is the best option for you. With either managed or unmanaged solutions available, a dedicated hosting environment allows you to have increased flexibility and control over your servers; something you can't get with shared hosting. Dedicated hosting ensures that your business will have the hardware resources it needs, when it needs them. In addition, the ability to add security, backup and monitoring services or to vertically scale by adding more RAM or Disk Space allows you to focus on what your servers do, not on how they do it.
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If you are concerned about maintaining a highly available Internet presence, then you should be looking at a fully-load balanced network topology. F5 Load Balancers automatically distribute traffic to your servers based on pre-defined routing rules that you control. If you provide a Service Level Agreement of reliability to your customers, you must have a fault-tolerant network where traffic is automatically routed based on a variety of load balancing algorithms: Round Robin, Least Connect or Sticky Session. Within a Load Balanced network, if an issue is detected with a server within your cluster, traffic is automatically distributed to other hardware, ensuring high availability, redundancy and reliability.
Cloud Computing, as provided by GoGrid, enables customers to take full advantage of the critical qualities of the cloud. Specifically: scalability, self-service, on-demand and utility based billing, all without a long-term contract. Hosting in the cloud enables systems administrators and IT professionals to quickly and easily deploy complex and dynamic infrastructure environments through a web-based portal or programmatically through the API. Essentially a virtualized datacenter, a GoGrid "cloudcenter" maintains all of the standard protocols, appliances and servers of a traditional datacenter, but with the convenience and ease-of-use the cloud provides. A GoGrid cloudcenter consists of free f5 load balancing, Windows/Linux applications, web and database servers and Cloud Storage, a dynamically scalable, mountable solution that is billed by usage.
Sometimes the best of every world is the correct solution to pursue. Hybrid Hosting using ServePath's Cloud Connect, provides dedicated, private gigabit connections between a GoGrid cloud front-end and a ServePath dedicated server back-end. This allows you to take advantage of a variety of best-in-class dedicated and cloud options. The cloud front-end environment for web and application servers enables your infrastructure to benefit from cloud computing capabilities: self-service, scalable, on-demand and utility based billing. The dedicated server back-end gives you the opportunity to run massive, high-performance servers typically required for large I/O or data intensive environments. Dedicated back-end servers can also frequently meet security compliance criteria that is often required. Combined cloud and dedicated infrastructures meet the needs of practically any business, corporation or enterprise.
