Get Business Servers for Pros

Building a web site is just the first part of establishing an Internet presence; installing that website on a server connected to the Internet — a “web server” — is how users will actually see the site.

A webhosting provider is a company that owns, operates and rents (or sells) web servers, and offers the high-speed connections necessary to quickly deliver web site content to end users.

The equipment is housed in a network operations center, also called a data center, which features environmental control and monitoring systems, fire-suppression capability, and security systems to prevent unauthorized physical and electronic intrusion.

There are four primary types of web hosts available:Hosting providers maintain their web servers, adding new hardware and software as needed, monitoring the systems to ensure maximum uptime, installing security patches, and providing customers with help and support. Most of the differences between hosting providers can be found in these areas of responsibility. Lower cost web hosts usually find the money to offset their lower monthly fees by reducing their investment in maintenance and customer support — whereas “business-grade” hosts like Netgetup spend more time and money making sure their customers’ sites are always up and running.

1. Shared Hosting
2. VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting
3. Dedicated Server Hosting
4. Cloud Based Server Hosting

Shared Hosting

In a shared hosting environment, multiple web sites on the same sever share the same hardware, connectivity resources and some software. For small or very simple web sites, this can be an acceptable hosting solution, but performance and security are often major issues.

Because some sites on the server may require large amounts of memory and bandwidth, the efficient performance and delivery of other sites on that server can be negatively affected.  Certain applications that can be modified by one user may affect all others, and there is a risk of data being compromised (usually unintentionally) by other users.

For these reasons, Netgetup does not offer its business customers shared hosting environments.

Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) afford customers more control over their hardware resources, software and access than shared servers.

With a VPS solution, multiple customers are housed on the same server, but each client has a “private” area on the server to which critical resources are assigned — so the performance of one customer’s site does not impact the performance of other sites in a different partition. Also, the number of private areas on each server is limited, ensuring that resources are not over-leveraged.

Netgetup’s VPS Hosting solutions are “managed services,” an important point to remember when selecting a VPS provider.

“Managed services” means Netgetup is responsible for configuring everything installed and delivered with a new account, and for repairing any problems with any Netgetup-configured system, at no extra charge. This includes restoring any data lost as a result of technical failures — even if a full data loss is experienced.  We also handle a number of other technical issues, such as installing patches for the operating system and supporting key third-party software.

Netgetup offers several VPS hosting solutions to meet the technical and budgetary requirements of your web site. Each of Netgetup’s VPS hosting solutions are enterprise-class hosting services that are built to be a dedicated server replacement service.

Dedicated Server Hosting

Traditional “dedicated server” hosting is where only a single customer is housed on a webserver, i.e., that server is “dedicated” solely to that client. It’s possible to have multiple web sites on a dedicated server, but they are all assigned to and/or under the control of that individual customer.

Netgetup does not sell any traditional “dedicated” hosting products, because most traditional dedicated server options lack the power, flexibility or redundancy required for today’s business needs. Too often, dedicated servers are low-end computers not fit for high-end hosting. Netgetup’s VPS line was created to offer customers a Dedicated Server Replacement, and its Cloud Based Servers are designed to meet the needs of clients ready to invest in a solution that provides them with the redundancy and power that growing online businesses require. Netgetup’s product line seeks to provide what traditional “dedicated server” hosting cannot. We leverage the worlds greatest data centers from Amazon.com, Rackspace and Google to build you a rock solid and scalable web environment.

Cloud Based Server Hosting

The Cloud Series offers Netgetup’s highest level of webhosting service. Like traditional dedicated server products, your cloud server is yours – so you are never affected by what other customers are doing with their sites. However, the Cloud Series is different from most dedicated server hosting products by virtue of the top-quality hosting hardware at the data-center, as well as Netgetup’s custom-coded Virtuozzo layer. This virtualization layer is designed to provide high levels of redundancy, quick image restoration in the event of a catastrophe, and FREE nightly backups.

At Netgetup, our Cloud Series servers are available in a variety of specific system resource levels with configuration options that increase server performance, speed and reliability.

Get Software Done Right

As Businesses that rely on Technology to maintain a competitive edge and get things done, much of the rapid growth and advances in technology for the past thirty years have come right out of our collective pockets.

Microsoft crafted such a brilliant software license that they essentially put the cost of improving their products in our balance sheets. Very rarely in my professional years in technology have I come across a software solution that just worked ‘out of the box‘. This fact created a lot of highly paid jobs, sure, but at the cost of innovation and flexibility. It’s called “Vendor Lock In” and prevents the customer from having the option of finding a better solution at a better price- essentially keeping them invested in the product while the Vendor improves (in their own sweet time mind you). Often new features are added for their ability to lock in new customers rather than serve the existing ones. Many problems are intentionally not solved since doing so would allow the customer too much freedom over how they use the software in the first place- say talking to a competitive companies application. Vendor lock in is costly, frustrating and often causes the customer such pain that future technology decisions are put off at the cost of staying competitive with improved processes.

The tide is finally turning.

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed talent and on-going improvement of a solution based on actual real world usage- not a planned features list for the marketing dept. Open source software results in better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. In a word: Freedom. One of the most important results is software that adheres to global standards- which makes your resulting application far more valuable- as there is zero friction in integrating it into other business applications, as well as creating a nexus of trust around which developers, users, and companies can organize future development.

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