Things You Should Know About Managed Hosting

Believe it or not but managed hosting is imperative to your business, especially if you are eying extreme scalability, and wish to achieve the same ASAP. However, that’s not the only thing that this service can do for you; there are many others, with web server load balancing being one of them. Moreover, if you happen to come across one of the reliable service providers, you may even get an ultra-high performance storage area network (SAN). Nevertheless, following are some of the other things that you should preferably know before picking up any of the service providers:

World-class security – If experts are to be believed, this service is supposed to offer enterprise-grade security, and therefore involves the implementation of all the security updates in the timely manner. Here, it is worth mentioning that you should try to find a service provider that is well-versed with things like two-factor authentication, and VLAN segmentation, among others. It goes without saying that any such service provider would most likely be able to live up to your expectations.

24x7 support – Managed hosting is often accompanied by round the clock support that can certainly take the burden off your shoulders. By and large, you can reach the service provider via phone, web-ticketing, and last but not least, email.

Monitoring – It is important to keep a tab on URL availability, and track down any expected downtime. However, URL availability is not the only thing that needs to be monitored; there are many others, and resource utilization is one of them. Believe it or not but a reliable service provider would not only monitor the things mentioned above but also alert you, as and when required. Needless to say, timely alerts can help you in making some informed decisions.

Meanwhile, one more thing that probably deserves your attention is the much-talked about PHP development. It is high time that you get a suitable platform for this purpose, especially if you have been ignoring it for a very long time. Nevertheless, following are some of the things that you should be familiar with, before you actually go ahead, and choose a platform:

Apps – Any such platform would help you to build your own apps, and perform the following set of activities after you have actually built some of them:

1. Deploying
2. Scaling
3. Managing

Stack components – If you happen to find a feasible platform for PHP development, you would most likely get access to a couple of stack components; these include but not limited to:

1. Powerful add-ons
2. PHP extensions

The author is an experienced Content writer and publisher on the topics related to PHP Development and Managed Hosting services.