Businesses that use cloud hosting avoid the high upfront costs of new hardware and the subsequent costs of refreshing that hardware. Instead, they get a predictable monthly/annual cost based on the resources they've used. In addition, cloud hosting customers aren't responsible for the cost of the data centre, power, cooling, connectivity and maintenance associated with on-premise IT because hosting companies take care of these costs.
Cloud hosting customers don't have to worry about hardware renewals and refreshes because we ensure they always have the latest hardware, which gives them high levels of performance. In addition, dynamic server-load balancing distributes workloads across physical machines to give customers the best performance from their cloud servers.
Cloud hosting customers can easily alter the capacity of their servers to meet the changing needs of their businesses. For instance, businesses with websites on cloud servers can schedule upgrades to cope with peaks in traffic. This ensures sites don't go down or suffer from poor performance when they're busy.
Cloud hosting can reduce the amount of downtime customers experience. It ensures their systems are always up and running. If hardware fails, they don't have to wait for repairs because their cloud servers fail over instantly. This means they automatically switch from failed components to working components in that cloud and their servers operate without losing data or server availability.
Businesses can reduce their carbon footprint by moving their IT to the Cloud. Instead of supporting a room of underutilised servers, cloud hosting customers get the capacity they need on cloud servers. This means they consume less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint. Cloud hosts can offer this thanks to virtualisation technology, which allows them to use more of their servers' capacity. According to analysts Gartner, virtualisation can reduce the energy consumed by servers by 82 per cent. All Fasthosts data centres are supplied by energy produced from renewable sources.
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