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Selection Process: Parameters to Count

Network Uptime

Efficiency, reliability and improved performance are the key metrics to align success across all industry verticals. Network uptime is an undeniable term that makes a huge difference in empowering the business growth. It ensures high availability of a server, site or networking device to gear up the website performance, efficiency and ROI (return on investment). In context to this, considering a single hour of site network downtime can cost an enterprise dearly in customer impact, staff time, repair costs, damage to equipment and systems, and more importantly lost revenue and credibility.

Studies and research conducted by the Ponemon Institute's "National Survey on Data Center Outages," 95 percent of companies have experienced an unplanned downtime concern within the past two years. Therefore, to address this most critical aspect (network uptime) in this competitive rage, it is important to cross-check this attribute, and opt for a web hosting service provider that offers guaranteed network uptime between 99.95 to 100 % .

Data center classification and availability of uptime

Data Center	Features	Uptime
Tier1	Non-redundant capacity components (single uplink and servers)	99.671% availability

Tier2	Tier 1 + Redundant capacity components.	99.741% availability

Tier3	Tier 1 + Tier 2 + Dual-powered equipment and multiple uplinks.	99.982% availability

Tier4	Tier 1 + Tier 2 + Tier 3 +fully redundant subsystems bequeathed with cooling, power, network links, storage, chillers, HVAC systems, servers etc.	99.995% availability

Bandwidth

There is no second opinion that in today's cable environments, new generation of digital youths expects rich media experiences across more devices and screens than ever before.Wide adoption of powerful multi-core-processor servers, higher-bandwidth interfaces, and blade servers areimmensely escalating connection densities and intensifying bandwidth requirements. The bandwidth-intensive content and data services guzzle enormous amount of bandwidth in most broadband networks. Paucity of bandwidth can curtail your overall website performance, restricting your end-users to download or transfer data from your website, forums or blogs. Measured in bits per second, a balanced amount of bandwidth helps in improvising user's experience.

Apparently, it becomes of dire importance to calculate the minimum bandwidth your website will need to handle traffic spikes prior to signing up for a hosting plan.

Greater Bandwidth is essential to handle traffic peaks, ensuring how fast your website will load on the browser. Lesser bandwidth impacts website speed.

Simple Formula to Determine Bandwidth Requirement for Your Website:Daily visitors X Daily Page Reviews
X Page SizeX31

Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Performance driven and well-established organizations define its success by incubating the SLA (Service Level Agreement). Bequeathed with the capability to ensure long term success, SLAshelp gaining competitive achievements through commitments. Effective SLAs plays a major role across all delineations of industry. This agreement between a service provider and a client ensures the stringent level of transparency as well as the bond of productive relationship.

In the context of managed IT services, fundamental to any contract of provision in the IT globe, the SLA covers all the aspects like terms of commitment, technical support, service-level goals, and detailed contractual deadlines in order to eliminate the event of corruption, downtime, data loss, and service-breach, underlying the agreement.

Key crucial steps involved in establishing a successful SLA are:

1Document
2Communicate
3Enforce
4Meet
5Record
6Publish
7Maintain

Storage Capacity

In lines with the bandwidth, storage capacity determines the availability and performance of your website. Sooner or later, your business-critical applications will appeal for greater space to run at its peak. In order to store and manage exploding data/applications growth, businesses need to choose a failsafe hard drive solution, so that their applications not only stay backed up and remain secure.

Right from the flash memory to network-area storage includingSATA, SAS, and SSD - multitude of options is available forenhanced capacity and high-availability clustering.

Data center architecture shouldbe capable enough of meeting requirements of today's highly-mobile workforce, proliferation of various devices anddynamic business models. In addition to this, it needs to be scalable to seamlessly incorporate advancing applications, technologies (cloud computing), and services. A holistic data center set-up comprises of avant-garde compute, storage, network and management that helps in automating IT as a service across multiple physical and virtual environments. This in turn, leads to increased budget efficiency, business agility, and simplified IT operations. According to studies and technology pundits, choosing a modular data center that supports - wide range of enterprise deployments, reduces complexity - and improves integration – helps in ensuring efficiencies at every level.

Data center architecture must help to ensure:

Service
continuty
Maximum availability architecture & robust disaster recovery planning
Performance & Flexibility
Holistic, end-to-end security & compliance approach
Security & Conformity
Architecture features automation, orchestration, and lifecycle management to streamline & simplify deployment and operation of IT resources

Security

Have you ever stubbed with the restricted access to your own web application hosting account?

Keeping up with criminals and security threats looks like a never ending pursuit. As companies embark on digital transformation, security and risk leaders must work together to incite awareness and in depth understanding of the associated chores and risks at the highest levels of the organization.

In the age of high profile breaches and intensified concerns about information privacy, malicious attacks, DDOS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) and massive data theft, IT pioneers are heading towards rigid security practices and tools to address the latest breed of multifaceted attacks. Leading security providers in today's increasingly complex enterprise environments drive innovation and on-demand data center security solution for servers, applications, services, and data across the data center. Additionally, to ensure secure, single-person entry, the controlled access in the building premises, data floors and individual areas is done through individually programmed access cards– using biometrics and visual identification.

Scary but
true facts!As per the Verizon Data Breach Investigation report, held in 2011, 92 % of network threats are external, which implies that all originate from the external sources such as hackers, organized crime agents, and government entities, manifestly targeted to a specific enterprise.

According to a recent report, 83% of companies lack required security skills.

Protecting the data center more effectively: security considerations

Network
Security
Protects your network by implementing firewalls, enabling predictive, proactive, policy-based, and extensible management and control access.
Server and Storage Security
Comprehensive server and storage infrastructure safeguards physical and virtualized based infrastructure.
Data
Protection
Monitors network traffic spike and protect data at rest, and in motion.
Application
Security
Protects applications, software and services delivered within your data center.
Security
Management
Equipped with connected intelligence, it ensures fully scalable security management for the data center.

Disaster Recovery

Digital assets, including data, software and applications are instrumental for smooth functioning of businesses. An enterprise continuity and Disaster Recovery planning is a road map, which a web hosting or data center benefactor prepares to combat against unwarranted catastrophic circumstances including tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods.

Undeniably, the temporary downtime has the potential to debilitate enterprise by disrupting operations, causing wrecked revenue, dissatisfied customers, and other dreadful consequences. Exponential data growth is originating spiraling contingency in the digital world. Given the Disaster Recovery plans help companies to cope up with the geographical hurdles.

Scary but true facts!87% of the companies that lose access to their corporate data for more than a week go out of business within a year.
80% of the companies go into the liquidation within 18 months of duration due to major disasters accompanied by no contingency planning.

Data recovery strategies should be developed to forecast the loss of one or more of the following system components:

Computer room environment (secure computer premise with controlled climate, conditioned and backup power supply, etc.
Hardware (networks, desktop, servers and laptop computers, wireless devices and peripherals)
Connectivity to a service provider (fiber, cable, wireless, etc.)
Software applications ( electronic mail, electronic data interchange, enterprise resource management, office productivity, etc.)
Data and restoration

Customer Service

Best-in-class web hosting solution powered by advancing technology and customer service– are the two major aspects that contribute in business continuity and expansion. Selecting a web host that employs team of professionalswith adequate domain knowledge to serve their clients (24x7) ensure that important business applications/websites/databases stay seamlessly functional.