We're pleased to announce a new addition to our hosting infrastructure to further enhance the quality package that we deliver to our clients. Most people don't think about this aspect very much......but it's absolutely critical. It's the foundation of our business, and also your business.
Simply because, if your web site isn't live, and your mail service isn't operating, then your business can grind to halt. So the challenge of delivering that level of efficiency on a 24/7/365 basis is a big one. It's certainly not something that's achievable on a shoestring budget or by cutting corners. And it's not a gig for part-timers that's for sure.
As a quick overview of what's involved, you need to be aware that Web Hosting is normally delivered using a LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). All of these are open source and provide what is necessary to deliver the content of your site when they are installed onto a web server that's connected to the major public networks worldwide.
However, there are alternative commercial applications that can replace those base elements listed above to provide better performance and security. And we have just replaced the open source Apache component with the commercial server application known as Litespeed Web Server.
The key benefit of LiteSpeed is it's ability to deal with heavier traffic, utilising less memory and CPU resources than Apache. It can also handle DDOS attacks with more efficiency, and has full mod_security compatibility. The LiteSpeed Web Server can serve thousands of clients concurrently, and it's highly optimised code serves static and dynamic content much faster than a standard Apache server.
If you've been a client for many years, you already know that we've constantly invested in our hosting infrastructure. As far as we're concerned, this is a critical core element of our business. So let's recap on our progression over the years!
2003: Web Hosting Reseller Account.
2008: Our first Virtual Private Server (VPS) in London.
2010: Our second Virtual Private Server (VPS) in Michigan.
2012: Our first Dedicated Server in London.
2014: Our second Dedicated Server in Michigan.
2016: Conversion of servers to run on Cloud Linux operating system in order to deliver greater security, efficiency, and stability.
2017: London Dedicated Server replaced with a new, more powerful server containing 32GB RAM, 32 CPU's, 6 x 480GB SSD Drives RAID 6.
2019: Conversion of Servers to use Litespeed technology to further enhance our level of service.
So as we keep moving forward......so do you! All clients using currently supported PHP versions are now running on Litespeed. Unfortunately we are unable to provide this facility for those running on deprecated and withdrawn PHP versions. However, once old sites are replaced and are using current PHP versions they will be upgraded to Litespeed.
Now here's an interesting point that I'd like you to consider:
Back in 2003, for a cost of €150 a year you would receive 150MB diskspace and 5GB bandwidth.
Fast forward to 2019 and for €150 a year you receive 10,000MB diskspace and 150GB bandwidth.
That equates to €1 a megabyte in 2003, compared with €0.015 a megabyte in 2019. That's 65x the diskspace and 30x the bandwidth of 2003 while paying the same price.
Can you think of anybody else that you do business with who can say the same thing?
Of course, it's a fact that the mass purchase of diskspace and bandwidth have got cheaper for us to buy over the years. But throughout those years we've passed those savings back to our clients........while still continuing to invest in improving and enhancing our hosting infrastructure. This is absolutely necessary, because in IT, if you're not moving forwards.....then you're going backwards! Failure to do so is occupational suicide - just ask MySpace, Altavista, Lycos and all the other failed business models from the dotcom boom of 20 years ago.
We already have another initiative planned within the next year.......and if you're a WebSpain client then you can be sure that you'll be a part of it!
Please note that our hosting infrastructure is only available to our current web design clients using sites that we have built.
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