What is hybrid cloud hosting?

As you may know public cloud computing offerings are delivered over the Internet in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, and computing resources such as storage or compute cycles delivered in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model. Public cloud boosts your capacity or supports new systems quickly and flexibly.

A private cloud uses a cloud-like infrastructure, including managed dedicated servers as well as virtualised servers in a scalable architecture, to run applications behind the corporate firewall and offer tighter security.

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A hybrid cloud model takes advantages of both types of structures. An organisation may choose, for example, to run its e-mail system in the public cloud while keeping highly sensitive, customer-oriented applications behind the firewall. The hybrid cloud is therefore not just cost effective but also highly flexible.

Managed dedicated servers - for mission critical applications on your main company website, downtime is unacceptable so only managed dedicated servers will do. At UKFast we offer a 100% uptime guarantee and are able to deliver this unbeatable reliability through our strict hardware replacement deadlines and high security data centres. Plus your solution is monitored and supported 24/7/365 by our expert support team.

Cloud hosting - inbuilt automated fail-over capabilities means that cloud-hosting offers incomparable uptime for your application. Not only that but with immediate access to increased storage, RAM or additional CPUs you can change your solution setup to fit your business needs.

Example uses of hybrid hosting:

• Enterprise applications are often delivered on a dedicated server whilst multiple websites that need to be maintained separately are hosting on cloud, giving yo
  u added flexibility.
• Mission critical applications are delivered on a managed server, but your test, development and staging environments are delivered on private cloud server. This enables you to test developments safe in the knowledge that this will not affect your core applications.
• Online applications are delivered through a managed dedicated server while back up data set is stored on private cloud servers, saving you from large storage fees.

By utilising both solutions you improve the overall performance of your solution as well as achieving cost savings.

Take advantage of our flexible hybrid cloud services today. Call our system architects on 0800 458 4545 or request more information on hybrid cloud.