Who is currently hosting your solution? Office 365 is run and managed by Microsoft themselves with a financially backed 99.9% up-time guarantee. Your current provider may be doing 99.99% or higher but if you are running your own servers chances are you're not getting that type of up-time. The difference between 99.9% and 99.99% is 8.76 hours of un-scheduled downtime per year vs. under 1 hour per year. You have to decide what type of downtime your company can withstand. We do like that Microsoft is backing the downtime guarantee financially since it puts Microsoft on the hook for a lot of money were they to have any outages.
So is hosting the way to go for small companies? For many, like Augustine, it's a great idea and one that will grow even more over the coming years. And you'd think by reading to this point I'd be a convert. But I'm not sold on this kind of service for my business. Surprised? Not as surprised as that client of mine back in 1986 when he got a huge tax bill because I forgot to include a few deductions he had.
Overall, the Google calendar system has been a major improvement for here our small business, and solved most of the problems we had with both the Microsoft exchange server and Blackberry services. The best part is since we have less than people Cloudways that need to share each other calendar in a group it is all for free. I think the limit is 50 per office. If you don't need calendar sharing with more than your partner, assistant and home, this is a no brain-er.
You keep on repeating your replies - one way to really waste your time is to constantly answer customer and prospect questions that keep repeating again and again. In this case, you might have to set up some information system so that they will no longer go to you anymore.
There is no fear of losing your valuable client data, due to network issues or overload of traffic. In a cloud hosting server, each server works in synch with the others, so that equilibrium can be maintained.Which in turn enhances the performance of the websites hosted over them, by allowing the sites to work round the clock, without any interruption?
Rackspace is part of a growing industry of companies that provide dedicated hosting. The company says it has more than 99,000 customers, many like Augustine. Dedicated hosting companies provide their clients with servers, support and up-to-the-minute technology housed in highly secure facilities. Technology is a headache, these companies say. Why go to through the headaches and expense when you can just let the experts manage this stuff? A decade ago this would have been very difficult. But in today's Web-based, broadband world of high-speed connections, it's reality.
So now that you understand how the VPS and the Cloud work, it's time for you to head back to the questions presented at the beginning of this article. If you can see where there is a need for cloud web hosting, then by all means make use of it. But if you've still got room to grow and a limited budget, then VPS may be your best bet.