Going to the Sun Marketing is proud to announce our partnership with Next Feature. We’ve worked behind the scenes with Next Feature steadily over the past 5+ years for hosting and website development. GTTS and Next Feature spent much of 2010 configuring and transitioning all of our clients into a cloud hosting environment. These changes will provide your business with more security, reliability, convenience and faster website speeds than ever before.
This change is something GTTS and Next Feature are pleased to begin offering our clients. In the past, we’ve used a single server solution to meet all of our hosting needs. This method has worked well for us, but as the industry advances, we strive to remain on the cutting edge. Today, that means moving toward cloud computing, which utilizes multiple, off-site servers to host a website, meaning all of your data is never stored in a single location.
This approach comes with many significant benefits:
Reliability
The most important of these benefits is the increased reliability that using multiple servers affords. Through constant monitoring and multiple data center locations, your website is at minimal risk of going offline or losing data due to a server or network malfunction. Even if one server experiences a failure, your data can still be accessed through a different server that is still functioning properly.
Security
Most traditional shared hosting environments run each website as one shared process. If any one site is hacked or compromised, it can cause data loss, data theft, etc., to other sites on the shared server. Next Feature’s cloud computing solution utilizes technologies that run each client’s website in its own instance, thereby eliminating this risk. A hacked or compromised website using this new system won’t effect any other sites but the one that was compromised. This means that with our cloud computing solution, your data is safe no matter who you share a server with.
Backups
Our new hosting solution is also advanced in terms of backing up all your important information. Where before, backups occurred once an hour or once a day, we now offer our clients continuous data backups, which occur constantly throughout every day, all year long. This allows us to easily revert back to any previous version of a site if a page is accidentally deleted or tampered with in some way.
Continuous Monitoring
Another great feature we’re offering, which is also related to reliability, is constant data monitoring of your site’s traffic flow. When a site reaches a critical amount of traffic, the professionals at Next Feature are immediately notified and can quickly scale up the system in order to meet the increased demand. Next Feature has set up automatic escalation for potential outages in order to ensure that systems stay up and running at peak performance. Escalations can occur when a business is mentioned on a national television or radio show and viewers immediately go to the website for more information. This means your customers will never reach a blank page when navigating to your website.
Speed
Every business wants to provide their customer’s with a quick connection to their website, no matter where they’re surfing from. With our new hosting solution, we’ve seen a significant difference in content delivery times, measured from the moment a user clicks on a page of a website we host, until it’s fully loaded onto their screen. By taking into account your website visitor’s location, your website can be delivered to them from a server that’s physically nearest their location, which means faster load times. This uptick in content delivery speed will also affect your website’s SEO (search engine optimization), as Google is beginning to take delivery speed into consideration when they order websites in search results.
Should you require support or have any questions about hosting, please feel free to contact us, or you may contact Next Feature.