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KUBIFY: THE NEW WAY TO PROVIDE HOSTING

Post author By 8quip
Post date 5 December 2019

HOW TO MANAGE MULTIPLE WEBSITES THROUGH A SINGLE PLATFORM

Choosing quality IT services for your digital company is crucial when looking to reach maximum performance for you and your customers. It’s an element that is easily forgotten or undervalued nowadays, with many low-cost services becoming very popular online. That’s why we’ll evaluate the three key points you should check before purchasing platform services.

In the era of PaaS and IaaS, you can focus entirely on the general functionality of sites and apps. These services allow you not to worry about the implementation details and entrust the technical information to developers. They have a high-level framework, almost always well documented, entirely open source, and based on a management that is, before anything else, modular and unified.

1 – Modularity both for individuals and workgroups

The modular approach benefits all workgroups in the field of IT, whether you think of a web agency, a group of professionals, or a freelance managing multiple clients. They all need to manage various sites and apps through a single platform.

Modularity means that all your clients’ sites can be accessed, managed, and updated starting from a single access point. This way, you avoid using as many hosting services as the number of clients you’re working with. A unified hosting solution is the ideal choice and requires a change of mindset, as you switch from the traditional model to a more simplistic one based on shared hosting.

This solution requires a scalable service. The scalability in this area is fundamental to guarantee a functional autonomy and management capacity for the operator (or technician) who will take care of it.

This multi-level service is possible thanks to an architecture based on container software or an abstract over-structure that replaces everything else. Beneath the structure, you have various sub-levels, as is the case with our hosting solution designed for web agencies that allows users to manage websites through unique panels.

In this case, scalability refers to the possibility of adapting the same structure not only for websites but also for other types of apps. For instance, our model can work with apps made with Redis (fast and practical storage based on the Remote Dictionary Server model) and some apps based on Big Data. Either way, we’re looking at solutions with variable quotas available in terms of CPU, RAM, and disk space.

2 – Developing in an agile and dynamic way

Besides the flexibility of your management environment, you should also take into account that most web solutions are meant to define development environments for programmers. This feature enables IT departments to develop and test specific software solutions (websites or web services) in an environment that is separated and inaccessible from the outside. They only transfer the changes to the online version afterward (the production version).

This way, you can streamline the development and maintenance procedures of any software. It allows you to speed up processes, which would otherwise require longer delivery times.

3 – The importance of managed services

A third aspect you should prioritize is the assistance service. Scalable solutions aren’t something you want to manage on your own. Any problem with the configuration of our sites or apps requires the presence of a system analyst who is familiar with the entire infrastructure you rely on. It’s fundamental that you work with a professional who knows how to set up everything for backup and restoration.

In this situation, site management becomes easier when you can count on a specialized service—something that most low-cost providers can’t offer due to a lack of skills.

In conclusion, these are the three main aspects regarding the management and maintenance of cloud services for any application you should consider when choosing an IT services provider. Without these three elements, you risk dealing with insidious and hard-to-counter problems.

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BUSINESS DATA BACKUPS: ESSENTIAL, BUT UNDERRATED

Post author By 8quip
Post date 28 November 2019

BUSINESS DATA BACKUPS: ESSENTIAL, BUT UNDERRATED

Technical cybersecurity reports show that viruses and malware are still the most widespread threats online. Among them, ransomware remains an insidious form of cyberattacks, particularly dangerous because most users tend to underestimate its effects.

Ransomware: the most widespread and risky viruses for companies

Ransomware is particularly dangerous amongst various viruses because it can encrypt and turn useless all files on your computer. Moreover, it can affect other devices from the same network, being able to completely delete all files–which makes you wonder whether to pay the ransom or not.

Users rarely pay attention to such a threat before it happens, despite the possibility of losing all data (for example, your corporate billing documentation). Ransomware only needs a simple click on a malicious link included in a deceptive email received. Even worse, when dealing with ransomware, once the damage is done, it’s usually not reversible. The only way to counter its effects is by keeping updated backup copies of your data.

Backup solutions save your system

A company’s backup policy is fundamental to countering the problems caused by ransomware attacks. Under this light, it becomes clear that leaving this responsibility to your employees or collaborators is often undoable due to several reasons.

First of all, it’s a matter of time. Your employees can’t stay productive if they have to handle technical issues regularly. Another reason is the lack of expertise—for your employees, it may be challenging to save data while they’re working with it.

The ultimate purpose of a backup is to have an updated copy of the latest version of your data. It can be anything, shared documents, electronic invoices, a website or blog, the code that makes your app run, or the emails sent and received by employees.

In most cases, you already protect your data with network protocols like HTTPS and various authentication levels, such as passwords and OTP codes on the phone. In many cases, however, this isn’t enough, either because the company network doesn’t benefit from adequate protection or due to new information leaks that are discovered every day.

Why backups are necessary

Companies discover the importance of having a backup only when things go wrong. Data recovery procedures allow you to instantly restore the state of the system (such as files, database, your business website) as it was in the exact moment you made the last backup copy. Therefore, it automatically removes old data and replaces it with the new one.

It’s a solution that wouldn’t be possible with manual backups unless relying on external supports via USB or network. However, in these conditions, you risk not having useful data to use, because it could also be corrupted.

It’s necessary to allocate resources and time to make sure you backup all your data. You should implement an automated backup solution, which allows you to be more relaxed in the case of software or hardware errors, or ransomware.

Furthermore, the backup service is often based on cloud technology. That’s because storing backups in the same place with the original files and database isn’t the safest solution.

Using external services also allows you to save data periodically according to a pre-established schedule (for example, twice a day on working days). Another advantage is the fact that you can get multiple backups, which gives you multiple choices in the case of an attack. You can also save data on CD or tape (which is more resistant support than the classic ones). The current trend is to exploit the cloud for its versatility and speed in the case of disaster recovery. Also, the cloud also counters possible space problems that might occur with traditional devices, as it operates similarly to a real external hard disk, where you can safely store an intact and working copy of your company data.

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HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR E-COMMERCE SALES FUNNEL

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Post date 22 November 2019

HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR E-COMMERCE SALES FUNNEL

As the manager of an e-commerce website, perhaps hosted on a cloud platform, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that maintaining a reasonable conversion rate—translated into the actual sale of the products—can often turn out to be pretty complicated.

While the site architecture is fundamental to complying with Google’s quality standards (and meeting the expectations of website visitors), it can’t generate conversions alone. It’s essential that you also analyze the journey that website visitors go through before buying. Unfortunately, most e-commerce owners tend to underestimate this vital process, with lousy effects on their bottom line. In short, a high number of website visitors to your online store can be entirely useless unless you can describe and measure the efficiency of the so-called conversion funnel.

In practical terms, optimizing a funnel allows you to track, manage, and monitor the average behavior of your website visitors, identifying tipping points and any bottlenecks in the buyers’ journey. The easiest way to achieve this is by drawing information from the analytics of your e-commerce website, which can be easily set up to provide useful data.

However, there’s no one-size-fits-all recipe for conversion funnel optimization. Each e-commerce is unique and has different problems and strengths that could influence outcomes. Under this light, analyzing user behavior becomes the most critical element of your strategy.

If you want to improve your conversion funnel, you should focus on the “journey” that your visitors make—from the first time they arrive on your e-commerce site to the moment they make a purchase. It’s a path that includes an intricate web of factors. For instance, users don’t often become customers upon their first visit—they’re more often looking for an initial understanding of the offering so they can then compare your prices with those of your competitors. Most website visitors will return to your site and/or engage with your brand several times before actually buying.

Even people who have already made a buying decision could interrupt the process due to some unforeseen blockage factors. For example, if you haven’t optimized your e-commerce for mobile, smartphone users will find it difficult or impossible to complete the purchase. Therefore, eliminating the blockages becomes a tricky and vital operation to your success.

The journey taken by potential customers during the buying process starts with the awareness stage—when people learn about the existence of a specific product—and ends with the long-awaited buying decision. The process explains the name of the funnel: from a significant number of people who arrive on the site, only a few will become real buyers. That’s because people will be “filtered” with various intermediate stages.

The funnel is constructed out of three stages. The first is known as TOFU (Top Of the FUnnel). It targets the majority of website visitors and should include engagement through site content that’s dedicated to newbies (for example, FAQs or articles in which you present the products that you sell).

The second stage is called MOFU (Middle Of the FUnnel) and regards the passage from website visitor to potential customer (for example, when someone subscribes to your newsletter).

Finally, we have the third stage, called BOFU (Bottom Of the FUnnel). It refers to the crucial moment in which the prospect decides to buy your product and becomes a buyer by making a purchase—and hopefully turns into a loyal customer.
The ugly truth is that this model for optimizing the funnel isn’t a universal solution that can be applied to all e-commerce websites. The conversion path is, in fact, sometimes more complicated than a simple “funnel”. However, it can still provide you with a solid guideline to optimize your conversion rates.

As you move on with your e-commerce business, you’ll see that various factors can disturb users’ interactions with your site and influence their perception. Sometimes, they’re positive (when someone gets to your website through word of mouth, the buying decision could come faster) or negative (a user can’t buy because your site doesn’t support a specific credit card).

In short, optimizing the conversion funnel on your website involves an audit of your e-commerce site. For the best chances to succeed, you should review everything, from the website architecture to its functionality, and define how and where you can improve your current assets and operations, as it’s the most powerful way to improve the purchase rate of your e-commerce.

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6 USEFUL TIPS TO KEEP YOUR WEBSITE SAFE

Post author By 8quip
Post date 14 November 2019

6 USEFUL TIPS TO KEEP YOUR WEBSITE SAFE

Cyberattacks targeting websites aren’t a minor thing. On the contrary, you should consider them an equally severe threat as malware, viruses, trojans, and ransomware. The issue is complicated and difficult to analyze, as websites can be attacked in multiple ways. That’s mostly because violations and breaches vary with each site’s specific architecture. Unfortunately, the effects of various types of attacks are usually similar.

When your website is the target of a cyberattack, you risk losing data, your position in Google’s ranking, and even contact with your customers. In other words, you can never be too cautious when it comes to web security. Here are some basic rules for keeping a site safe and how they can help you avoid security issues.

1 – Use SSL Certificates

As we pointed out in our article on HTTPS for Google, an SSL-protected connection is one of the first things you should equip your site with. Not only does SSL provide a high level of protection, but it can also help you get traffic. Chrome, for example, may refuse connection with pages that don’t adhere to this protocol, so by having an SSL-protected connection, you avoid losing website visitors.

Moreover, an SSL-protected connection can help with SEO, as Google considers HTTPS an important ranking factor for websites. As for the type of certificate you should opt for, you should know that even the very common Let’s Encrypt is enough to protect your site against intrusions or foreign entities spying your online activity.

2 – Keep the Site Up-to-date

Updating your website is essential for its security, especially when managing your content through and CMS. You can and should update modules, themes, and other components that require this action. As a guideline, it’s a good habit to check whether there are updates available and run them periodically (for instance, once per week).

If you don’t have the time for this activity, assign the task to someone with the right skills for the job. Whether you decide on an in-house expert or outsourcing, make sure the person responsible is also able to restore the site in the case of an error. This way, you prevent attackers from exploiting possible site bugs. On top of that, you can implement a policy of Security Assessment to check the effectiveness of your security measures, and further protect your data.

3 – Use Secure Passwords

It’s no secret that passwords are the gateway to the administrative backend of your website, where the CMS enables you to make changes. Many cyberattacks, in fact, are based on the knowledge of site passwords. That’s why it’s essential to protect these secret words to prevent unauthorized access to your website.

All users (and especially the administrators) should never use universal passwords that also give them access to other portals. Moreover, you should encourage them to save passwords in a secure keychain (like the one integrated with Firefox, for example). Remind users that all passwords should contain at least one capital letter and one non-alphabetic character. Also, it’s considered good practice for users to change their passwords every three months.

4 – Properly Manage User Roles on the Site

Many security problems have their roots in a substantial carelessness in managing accounts. If you need to add new users, you should think twice before providing them administrator access–you should do it only when it’s really necessary.

Remember that every new user that you create becomes a potential “key” to access your website, sometimes by malicious users. If you create too many ways to access it, your site becomes more vulnerable to attacks.

5 – Don’t Show too Many Error Messages

Bugs on websites happen all the time, but it’s not necessary to start showing them around. On the contrary, this approach can benefit attackers. It’s fundamental to separate the staging version of the site from the live site. Also, you should make sure that the details of the errors, which are valuable only for your programmers, remain hidden to outsiders. It’s an extra layer of protection that can limit computer security problems.

6 – Don’t Show Details about Your CMS

Webmasters often set up a robots.txt file on the site to prevent Google from specific scans, for SEO purposes. As the file is public, they end with exposing the fact that the site is using WordPress, for example. Another fingerprint that programmers unintentionally leave on the website is the meta-tag generator, which identifies various versions of the site. It’s another element that can be used maliciously– if people know the version of the CMS, they can design specific cyberattacks for that version.

In conclusion, keeping a website safe requires a bit of attention and common sense, as well as in-depth knowledge of the technologies and the dynamics that keep sites functional.

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5 PRACTICAL USE CASES OF CLOUD COMPUTING IN EVERYDAY LIFE

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Post date 12 November 2019

5 PRACTICAL USE CASES OF CLOUD COMPUTING IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Despite the fact that cloud computing is part of countless smartphone and desktop applications that are used by millions of people on a daily basis, this technology is often a difficult concept for newbies and non-tech-savvy folks to digest.

However, if you set aside the technical details, cloud computing becomes easy to understand. And given its continued growth, it will become more affordable and accessible for everyone in the coming years.

Before we dive into examples of common usage, it’s important to note that much of the cloud computing space is defined as Software as a Service (SaaS), an application distribution model where users only pay for their actual usage of data and services.

Often, SaaS products are partially free, but the software availability is limited—like in the case of file hosting services that typically provide users with limited space for storing data. Unfortunately, there’s no universal definition for these types of services, which is a big reason why the myriads of meanings and use cases commonly create confusion. To help facilitate the understanding of the concept, here’s a list of five practical uses of cloud computing that frequently happen in everyday life—some that many of us use without even knowing!

1 – Video streaming platforms

We use on-demand streaming services for watching sports, television, movies, and even live events, among other things. They’re all based entirely on the development of cloud computing technology. The end-users benefit from affordable services even though providers use expensive hardware and software in their processes. That’s possible through fragmenting the service so that anyone can afford it. In this case, we’re looking at several servers that cooperate to facilitate streaming services. They also have recovery technologies to correct any transmission errors, maintain a consistent video stream (and keep it synchronized in real-time), and so on.

2 – File hosting services

As mentioned, most storage services that are designed to store data and create backup copies are based on the cloud model. This makes it possible to upload and download files, which enable users to access and control file systems remotely, as well as synchronize files in real-time across multiple devices. The possibility of synchronizing data, moreover, is one of the most appreciated features by users who travel and need to have their documents and business data up-to-date at all times.

3 – Secure storage of personal data

Here we have apps that memorize and store passwords, which can synchronize data through cloud servers.
Providers have multiple solutions to guarantee security, depending on the service.
Most often, they rely on strong cryptography (also called end-to-end), which ensures that no one but the owner has access to the passwords.

4 – Backup solutions for systems, sites, and software

Most of the systems used for backup (like making backup copies necessary for recovering data) are now based on cloud computing. The cloud almost entirely eliminates the need for repetitive manual backup operations (which is absolutely essential for all systems). Most platforms currently provide various features that help users plan and automatically create secure backup copies regularly and with no effort. In this case, cloud computing allows end-users to save significant working hours in a year.

5 – Chatbots

As we’ve said in a previous article, cloud computing, together with advanced algorithms, can create interactive chatbots. It’s a cost-effective tool that enables companies to enhance sales funnels and upgrade online assistance services to become automated and easier to manage. A chatbot has the ability, through direct communication with a virtual operator, to anticipate the questions of a potential customer. Moreover, it can direct users toward the right answer, which can be an FAQ page, a specific business proposal, or the classic Contact us page, where they can get in touch with the sales department.

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HOW TO BACKUP YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

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Post date 28 October 2019

HOW TO BACKUP YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

WordPress is the platform of choice for most modern websites. It’s a CMS (Content Management System) and open source blog that has grown into a well-established solution, thanks to its ease of use. When it comes to the main competitors in the open-source area, the preference for WordPress is clear.

The platform outperformed alternatives such as Joomla! (previously much more widespread) and ended up pushing them toward specific market niches. Moreover, with WordPress, anyone can set up their business or personal website without having many technical skills. The only issue that people tend to underestimate is planning backups.

In fact, a website owner rarely thinks about backups. Unfortunately, when a backup is needed, it could be too late to do it. The need to make secure website copies right from the start often gets avoided due to the excuse of having little time available or perhaps other priorities (both in terms of personal and company commitments).

In the worst case, we’re looking at substantial inexperience on the part of the operator who manages the site. In this article, you’ll learn how to solve this problem in a smart way and without necessarily having technical skills.

There are several ways to do a backup in WordPress. Few people know that it is also possible to automate the process (at least partially) so as to not have to think about it in the future.

The Manual Backup

This is the most straightforward way of doing a backup and includes two phases. In the first one, you download copies of all the files from your website on another computer (your device, for example), accessing the main folder (root) through FTP.

In the second part, you make a copy of the MySQL database, exporting it in a text format (or as a ZIP archive if it’s too large). The two phases are both essential, as they help you obtain a backup copy of the website to be restored if necessary. However, manual operations raise more problems than one.

First of all, this process requires time (unless the site is very small; on medium-large sites, it takes at least an hour to complete everything). This is time that could be used for different activities. After all, not all website owners have a technical department available full-time for this type of job.

The second critical aspect to consider is that backup operations should be performed regularly. That’s because the process should reflect the changes you make on the site, such as adding any plugins, changing a theme, writing, or updating content.

To cover these specific needs, WordPress provides various types of plugins, which you can install from the official CMS repository (https://wordpress.org/plugins/). Alternatively, you can find them directly inside the internal menu of the website using your administrator account (by clicking first on Plugin, then on Add). Let’s take a look at two of these solutions.

The Automatic Backup

BackupWordPress. This is undoubtedly one of the simplest to use. With one click, you can copy the files (which are compressed in a ZIP format) and the database of your site. The backup copy is placed, by default, in the local folder of your website, ready to be downloaded and set aside in case of an emergency. The backups, in this case, can also be scheduled–for example, an automatic backup every week.

UpdraftPlus. This is one of the best plugins for backup management. It has more options than the previous plugin and enables you, above all, to connect a Dropbox or Google Drive account and save your backups remotely. It’s a very convenient backup solution, thanks to the fact that it allows you to schedule operations and save the files in your cloud storage if you wish.

External Backups

There is also a third solution, which consists of using backup solutions that are independent of the website. These can be integrated through interfaces within the backend. In this case, you perform the backup operation separately from your activities on the WordPress platform. The Critical Case backup solutions, for example, allow you to securely save all your data, regardless of the plugins that you are using. They permit you to keep a copy of your data in complete safety, along with all the advantages that come with a dedicated professional service.

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HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT HOSTING SERVICE

Post author By 8quip
Post date 14 October 2019

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT HOSTING SERVICE

Are you looking for a hosting service and you don’t know what to choose?

In today’s world, if you want to stay competitive on the market you need a great, available and fast website. Internet is the center of everybody’s life and the world of work is not an exception: if you haven’t a strong web presence you are actually invisible to the eyes of customers and vendors. So, if you are en entrepreneur or have a startup, it’s crucial for you to invest in your website, but often this is limited to overpay the graphics, and then save money on the hosting service, which will actually host your web domain.

That’s a common and serious mistake, because a poor hosting solution can compromise a lot the quality of your web service, making it slow and difficult to manage, due to the bandwidth’s saturation or the low maintenance of server. It’s like having a Ferrari without gasoline, easy on the eyes but of little use, so parked there and forgotten. In addition to that, we can say that the choice of the hosting service is made even harder because of the huge number of offers found on internet, which promise unlimited bandwidth for peanuts and are not serious. These kinds of provider just want to take on new clients and increase their business, by neglecting the quality of service and also the needs of users. How figure this out? How to choose the next “house” for your website? In other words, how to ensure to your supercar a full tank of gas to make it whiz at the right speed?

The right hosting solution for you

Let’s start by saying something very important: it doesn’t exist the best hosting service in absolute terms. The right hosting solution for your website is what suit better your requirements, which are surely different from the needs of other businesses. Therefore, you need to focus especially on the particular features of the service requested, leaving aside proposals of other type. So, if your aim is to create a website for fun, for example a blog about your life or in which you can share thoughts or cooking receipts, probably will not need a dedicated bandwidth and can be satisfied with a cheap service which ensure you just the space needed to stay online. Much depend also on the weight, number of pages and audiovisual resources of your website. Instead, if you have professional purposes and you are looking for new customers, need to choose a powerful service which allows you to make your website a real killing machine. Think about what would happen if while a customer is browsing your site, it takes too much to load or get some error messages from some link or banner. That customer would leave your site to browse your competitors with more available websites. So, be careful about “unmissable offers”: some hosting services are sold for nothing and promise unlimited resources, but you can be sure that this way clients will be hosted on server not powerful enough to manage a discreet web traffic. Slowdowns and outages will be a daily occurance and money saved will be lost in terms of missed customers. Save more time on the search for the right hosting service for your needs and choose a professional solution: by paying something more you will be certain to get the proper space and features to grow your web business.

Types of hosting: dedicated or shared services

Discarded “false friends” and focused on quality services, now it’s the moment to make other assessments in order to reach this choice: which type of hosting is right for my business? There are many variables to keep in mind. First of all, you need to decide if you want a shared hosting or a dedicated server for your website:

shared hosting is the cheapest solution available, but you’ll have to share space and bandwidth with thousands of users. It entails all the risks of slowdown and downtimes we mentioned above, so it is a good option only if you haven’t particular business needs.
hosting on dedicated server is more professional and allows your site to have its own space and to take full advantage of server’s computing power: your website will be faster and more reliable, with a superior price you will get better performance which will be surely payed back with increased revenues
the last option is the hosting on virtual server: it is a middle ground between the first options, server is shared with other users but is not a physical space so you can manage it autonomously like it’s only yours. You can also add more power to it and take full advantage of the bandwidth. Also, virtual server is more protected against cyber-attacks and is the safest solution if your website needs to manage money or sensitive data.

Features of good hosting: bandwidth, scalability and technical support

Which are the hosting features to compare before taking the final decision?
Basically, you can focus on three parameters essential for a good hosting: bandwidth, scalability and technical support. The bandwidth is the simplest feature but also the most important one: it’s the traffic capacity you can use on that server (10 GB, 15 GB, unlimited…). Pay attention to whose offer unlimited traffic because it’s not really like that, usually they are linked to other characteristics with have limitations, and the high-number of users will slowdown your site anyway. May be that at the beginning you need some space and then, after months or years, it was no longer enough, because your business has grown in terms of revenues and advertising campaigns.

You need to consider the scalability: it means that you can make an upgrade of the virtual resources of your website without calling the technical assistance or moving on other servers. It is vitally important also the technical support: even with the best hosting solution, sooner or later you will run into some issues and fix them rapidly and easily must be your priority. Some providers are accessible only by phone and sometimes just in English, other has H24 technical support which would be very useful and efficient. Usually, is good to contact the technical support of the hosting provider you want to choose and ask them all your pre-sales questions to eliminate any doubt about the quality of service offered. Another good practice is asking to who has already tried the hosting service: look for reviews and real opinions in forum of the field (better avoid opinion sites because the most are good reviews), they will give you additional information about benefits and limits of the offer.

The choice of the proper hosting service can make the difference and be a determining factor for your website. Take your time and consider all the proposals, only this way your website will get the maximum performances and results.

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WHAT IS CLOUD HOSTING AND HOW IT WORKS?

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Post date 23 September 2019

WHAT IS CLOUD HOSTING AND HOW IT WORKS?

Cloud hosting: meaning and features

Cloud hosting is a service which ensures the permanence of your website online and all the resources related to space and traffic needed to manage at best your business on the web (CPU, RAM,storage etc.). Unlike the other services, it’s not physical but virtual. That means that Cloud hosting uses Cloud resources to guarantee the maximum availability, better performance and high-scalability. Cloud hosting service is based on virtualization systems designed for websites and internet services which request flexibility and high-performance.

Cloud hosting features are suitable to any kind of business and to its particular needs in terms of online traffic. All Cloud hosting solutions are high-scalable and able to support the growth of your web project step by step, by assuring high-availability and customized SLA based on performance.

Which are the key benefits of Cloud hosting?

High-availability
Top performances
High-scalability
Pay-per use model
Customized SLA

Cloud hosting can be activated with the Fully Managed option, which means that the hosting service management is handled by Cloud provider’s specialists. Fully managed Cloud hosting service is beneficial for many reasons. For instance, it represents the ideal solution for firms which have no time to run the management, or for organizations that has no employees with proper IT skills to administrate the service correctly. Thanks to a dedicated team of experts, you won’t have to worry about IT management anymore, removing stress, expenses and time needed to manage it autonomously.

Cloud hosting Kubify with Kubernetes containers

Kubify is the only solution of fully managed Cloud hosting in Italy using Kubernetes containers, and able to ensure maximum performances, scalability and security. Something new is that Kubify is a multidatacenter and hybrid hosting solution, which takes advantages of the availability of Azure storage and of our Data Centers computing power and scalability to ensure unparalleled performances. Cloud hosting Kubify is a Fully Managed “turn-key” service. You don’t need to worry about the infrastructure technical management anymore, but you can develop easily your applications on an all-inclusive platform capable to ensure the highest availability of the service and achieve top-level performance. Besides, Kubify includes a series of additional free services in the hosting offer, such as hourly backups, synthetic monitoring, development and testing environments and more, as well as h24 technical suppor, like all our Cloud services.

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HOSTING FOR WEB AGENCY: BENEFITS OF PARTNER PROGRAM

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Post date 13 September 2019

HOSTING FOR WEB AGENCY: BENEFITS OF PARTNER PROGRAM

What is a web agency and what does it need?

Web agencies have to do with developing digital solutions. In addition to website building, they work with different kinds of online communication projects. Indeed, in a web agency we find a team of digital experts able to support and promote the growth of online businesses in different ways. Here’s the main services offered by web agencies, as well as website development:

Online advertising solutions
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for websites
Web content editing
Social media marketing
Graphic and web design

Precisely because a web agency works in close contact with the digital world, needs to use a top-level hosting service. Each company has particular requirements, so it’s important for a web agency to choose the best hosting solution for its needs.

Partner Program: why is the best service for web agencies?

Criticalcase’s Partner Program allows web agencies which sign up to expand the range of services provided and increase reputation to their customers. With Partner Program you can offer your clients high-end hosting services and other Cloud solutions. But not only that, you will have at your disposal a complete range of IT solutions: CDN, Disaster Recovery services, Managed services, monitoring solutions and more. Thanks to this partnership, from one side web agencies can raise their popularity, finding new customers and increasing turnover. From the other side, this way it’s easier to get customer loyalty, assuring them great IT solutions instead of them choosing your competitors because provide hosting services and you don’t.

Partner Program benefits for web agencies are really a lot. Here’s some:

White Label
No costs
Dedicated pricing
Facilitated payments
Free staging environments
Free trials
H24 technical support

You will also have free business training and marketing support, custom packages and more.

How to earn with Partner Program in 3 steps

Obviously, we cannot ignore one of the major benefits of Partner Program: earn money since the first day. Through our program for Partners, any web agency can resell our Cloud and hosting services to its customers in a simple and profitable way. To start earning with Partner Program you just need to make three simple steps:

1. Sign up to Partner Program

2. Login to the reserved area

3. Start selling our Cloud solutions to your clients

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KUBIFY: WEB HOSTING OF TOMORROW USES KUBERNETES

Post author By 8quip
Post date 21 May 2019

KUBIFY: WEB HOSTING OF TOMORROW USES KUBERNETES

Why Kubify is a unique and innovative web hosting solution on the market?

Any online project needs a web hosting of high-quality which is able to support the business growth at best. Today we will talk about Kubify, our advanced web hosting solution, designed specifically to get the best performance and availability to enterprises digital projects. In this post we want to show you why Kubify is a one of a kind, and which are its differences with classic web hosting services.

Kubify vs traditional web hosting services

Kubernetes Containers
Kubify is based on Kubernetes Containers. Nowadays containers are the most advanced Cloud technology available on the market and Kubernetes is definitively the leading player when it comes to enterprise infrastructures. Kubernetes containers offer the best availability of service, high-flexibility and modularity, as well as great performance.

Platform as a Service(PaaS)
Ideal for developers, PaaS just takes all that worry about infrastructural system away. Kubify offers an all-inclusive platform able to ensure the highest productivity of the system, on which you can develop your applications easily without damaging downtimes.

Multi-datacenter & Hybrid solution
Kubify has the particularity of being a multi-datacenter and hybrid solution. That means firstly that the availability of service is ensured at maximum levels because of the implementation on multiple data centers. Besides, it’s a hybrid solution, so it offers additional benefits compared to traditional hosting services, because it combines the advantages of both private and public Cloud.

High-availability and scalability
Kubify uses the efficiency of Azure storage together with the high-scalability provided by our Data Center to ensure SLA next to 100%.

“Turn-key” service
Kubify is a fully managed web hosting service, delivered ready-to-use to customers.

But not only that! Here we’ve just mentioned some interesting and innovative features of Kubify, but it has many other benefits. Kubify includes a wide range of additional free services like GIT and staging environments, daily backups, H24 technical support and many more.

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