Data plays a vital role in today’s business world. From collection to analysis, data has become a cornerstone for businesses. Every organization, irrespective of its size, generates huge data on a daily basis, and it relies on this data to run the business. The reliance on data makes it crucial for the company to store and secure data using the best possible solutions. While in theory, that may be the case, in the real world,…
William Edwards Demming, the father of modern quality management, said that ‘In God we trust; all others must bring data’. Data has proven to be an essential commodity that has effectively fuelled digital growth. Clive Humby’s iconic declaration of ‘data is the new oil’ is the oft-quoted phrase to establish the relevance of data as a precious resource in today’s digital age. And, every valuable commodity needs to be stored and secured effectively. This has…
Web server rooms and data centres generate a large quantity of heat due to the operation of processors and other components that work using electricity. Here, the electric energy is converted to other forms of energy leading to the dissipation of heat. The release of heat elevates the temperature inside these server rooms. Given the sheer volume of electrical components in these data centres, the heat generated is quite high. Also, the presence of smaller…
VPS or Virtual Private Server is a form of breaking down one physical server into smaller servers and assigning each of these smaller units to individual customers. Let’s understand each term separately. Server: Since each of these smaller units is a self-sustaining environment with complete root access of the OS given to the customer, we can call this unit a server. It’s important to note that this is different from a Shared Hosting order, where…
Cloud Hosting is a method of hosting your website where your critical site data is stored across multiple servers rather than just one. Cloud Hosting has gained prominence in recent years, thanks to the fact that it has a massive impact on any company’s IT costs. Companies have seen direct savings in costs, time-saving, and even a significant reduction in the amount of IT resources needed. Another reason for the popularity of Cloud Hosting is…
Whenever an organization or individual is building their first website, the primary consideration is getting the website up and running. Building a website and taking it live involves a lot of time and effort. However, once it is active, the major effort goes into maintaining the website, ensuring that it is available to your visitors at all times. However, failures are inevitable and therefore, it is necessary for every business website to regularly create a…
Virtualization is a process of isolating the resources of a computer system and creating multiple versions of the same to run concurrently. In simple terms, virtualization suggests partitioning of a network, hardware or an OS, to turn every dissociated version independent. An excellent example of such partitioning is server virtualization. If you own a website, you would definitely have purchased web hosting services. One of the popularly known hosting types, VPS Hosting, is a real-time…
A hosting control panel is an application or software that’s shipped with every website hosting plan. A control panel is the nerve centre of your hosting plan and allows you to control all your subdomains, add-on domains, website files, email campaigns, security configurations, SQL database, and other finer details of your hosting plan. A control panel for a VPS allows you to do all this and then some. A good VPS control panel will allow…
The web hosting industry has constantly evolved over the years. What started from Dedicated Server-based Hosting evolved to Shared Hosting and finally to more advanced hosting setups such as VPS Hosting and Cloud Hosting. While Shared and VPS Hosting platforms are popular for being the cost-effective options for smaller, budget-conscious websites, Cloud Hosting is touted to be the future of hosting. The unparalleled scalability, data redundancy and security of Cloud Hosting platforms have positioned it…
The web hosting industry, like any other, has evolved over time. If you take a historical view of the industry, you’ll see constant, incremental changes. VPS has gone mainstream, Cloud Hosting is becoming more popular, CMS applications are now offered with more hosting plans, hosting companies have tie-ups with security and backup software companies — the list goes on. A decade ago, most of the things mentioned above were non-existent. Today, they’re almost ubiquitous. Each…
