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10 Reasons Why Cloud Hosting Is Better Than Traditional Hosting

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:00:00 +0000

Moving to cloud’ is the buzzword which is gaining prominence day by day. Let’s try and understand through this post as to why everyone seems to be moving to the cloud.

What is moving to cloud?

In simpler terms, moving to cloud is simply migrating your data, applications, email or software to cloud hosting where it is accessible from anywhere across the globe.

Few examples of cloud applications in our daily lives – reading books on Kindle paperwhite, Google drive and listening to the tunes that are on your computer at home through your cell phone.

Cloud makes applications accessible anywhere on the go and this and much more that it offers, make our daily lives more convenient, and it certainly can do wonders for your business.

Why your business needs to move to cloud?

To meet growing hosting needs of the customers.
To provide easy solutions and more developed hosting environment for the growing business needs.
To counter the limitations of traditional hosting, which I have discussed in detail below.

Why go for cloud hosting over traditional hosting?

Cloud hosting provides a spectrum of benefits, including but not limited to-

#1 Increased Server uptime

Server uptime is directly proportional to the performance of your website. Cloud hosting provides maximum network uptime and guarantees no single point of failure.

As it is a system of interconnected servers so if at any point, one server is unable to take your request then another one out of the multiple servers will take over the workload of the failed server by default.

Whereas, in traditional hosting, a single server set up risks hardware failure and downtime for your website and applications.

#2 Pay for the resources as per your needs

In cloud hosting model you do not have to worry about the capital expenditure as you don’t need to invest in any infrastructure and OPEX is also lesser as you just need to pay only for the resources/services which you actually utilize.

Whereas in traditional hosting model you need to pay a fixed mount for the services whether you utilize them or not.

#3 Increased security

In traditional hosting you share the resources and CPU needs with other websites on the same server or maintain a private dedicated server to secure sensitive information which costs too high.

Cloud hosting comes with such an infrastructure that secures your data at various levels-network, data, application, and physical security. Cloud service providers ensure data safety through customer’s identity management, proper data isolation and storage segregation, secure and encrypted solutions, firewalls and backup recoveries.

#4 Scalability of resources

Instantaneous allocation of resources with the emerging needs of the website is quite easy and simple with cloud hosting.

A cloud hosting set up allows sites and accounts to add or reduce resources like bandwidth, storage, RAM etc. from the bank of resources maintained by the network of multiple servers.

Whereas physical machine in a traditional hosting set up has limited resources and rigid specifications. So you cannot ramp up the resources immediately on the server whenever the need arises for the same.

#5 Independence of location

Traditional hosting servers are confined to a fixed place and thus, you need to be specific while choosing your server as the location of server plays a great role in the loading speed of a website.

Whereas cloud hosting servers are present across the world. They are accessible globally via an internet connection and with any device-PC or mobile.

#6 Increased Group collaboration

Cloud computing allows for access anywhere on the go. Employees of an organization can work on the same documents and even share applications, regardless of the location where they work from.

For example, you can access data from home, or even if you are on tour with Office 365-a business productivity suite that enables faster and smart working and also flexibility in work practices.

But you cannot enjoy this feature of team collaboration in traditional hosting.

#7 Backup and disaster recovery

Cloud hosting provides disaster recovery feature as data is automatically backed up in inter -connected server (cloud being a multi-server setup).

Traditional hosting does not offer disaster recovery as there is only one single server where you can host your data and applications. You need to arrange for backup of your data yourself.

#8 Latest technology

Cloud hosting leverages latest technologies. It allows you to customize and integrate your software applications, as per your needs and preferences of your business. This may include upgrades to servers, latest versions of software and computer processing power.

With traditional hosting you cannot upgrade, customize automatically.

#9 Environment friendly

Cloud servers are utilized up to full capacity which minimizes the idle time and saves energy of both company and environment.

Cloud hosting eliminates the need of maintaining in house servers, reducing carbon emission.

#10 Performance

The site hosted in a cloud environment performs far better than that hosted on a traditional server set up. For those who require speed of loading page, flexible and immediate resource allocation, disaster recovery plans, energy saving and climate friendly server set up and above all, more in less prices, then cloud is a perfect solution for them.

If you can think of any other benefit of cloud hosting over traditional hosting, feel free to add to the list.

Merging of Numbers

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:58:00 +0000

Hi

The Customer Service Number +65 65287387 has been merged to the call centre number : +65 61008347 to better manage our incoming calls.

The old Customer Service Number +65 65287387 will be decommissioned on 1st July 2014.

This will take effect from 1st July 2014.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

New Call Centre location

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Sat, 31 May 2014 01:30:00 +0000

We have move to a new Call Centre location, our number remain the same at 6100-8347

Emergency update to server

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Thu, 22 May 2014 02:30:00 +0000

Hi

The Register partner has scheduled a emergency upgrade to move to a new rack in our data center on 22/5/2014, 13:00, during the following maintenance window, with the move lasting up to 1 hour:

Start: Thursday 22 May 2014 13:00
End: Thursday 22 May 2014: 16:00

Our data center partner is performing this move in order to improve data center power and cooling performance, which will increase the server's reliability.

The server will be manually shutdown just prior to the move to ensure there is no data corruption on the server. Our announcement portal will at http://blog.myvdh.com be kept updated with the current status of the move.

As always, our staff will be available to answer any questions you may have regarding this process. If you have any questions regarding this process, please let us know by emailing support@vdomainhost.com.sg

Team @ Venture Domain Hosting

Spamhaus Listing - 2014-01-22

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

Yesterday, one of the third party external spam registries called 'Spamhaus' misconfigured their spam systems and caused thousands of POP email servers around the world to be blocked by mistake. Although the datacentre do feel this listing was done in error, the datacentre have made some additional improvements to the outbound spam scanning to further reduce the number of spam messages that get by the filters

As a result of the misconfiguration of Spamhaus, Spamhaus would unknowingly block POP emails from reaching the companies that use Spamhaus.

The dataentre are also trying to reach out to Spamhaus.org to obtain more information about why this msconfiguration has occurred as the datacentre still feel it was done in error. Unfortunately Spamhaus do not provide any public contacts, so the datacentre are trying to see if they can find another way to contact them and work through this issue with them.

Spamhaus does not have a phone number and they only correspond via email.

Our datacentres and other datacentres globally have been consistently emailing Spamhaus to request that they correct this.

We are still awaiting new updates from Spamhaus.

Email senders using Enterprise Microsoft Exchange Servers are not affected by this.

Best regards.

Vartan Gevork

CTO

Venture Domain Hosting

Happy New Year 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers and Associates

Happy New Year!!

We wish everyone a great prosperous year ahead.

Ivan Nicholai
CEO
Venture Domain Hosting

Season's Greetings and Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers and Friends,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

May your Christmas as wrapped up with joy and filled with celebration for the New Year.

Merry Christmas from team at Venture Domain Hosting.

Our sales team will be celebrating from 21st Dec 2013 to 1st Jan 2014.

Ivan Nicholai
CEO
Venture Domain Hosting

Upcoming Maintenance: Microsoft Software Updates - 08 October 2013, 11PM to 3AM (PST Time)

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 03:54:00 +0000

Exchange team will be installing Windows updates that require rebooting Exchange server. Individual services should only be unavailable long enough for patch installation and reboot. Incoming messages will be queued until maintenance is completed.

Exchange Team

Hari Raya Puasa and Singapore 48th National Day Holiday

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:06:00 +0000

Dear Customers

Our sales team will be taking a break from 8/8-11/8 and will be back on 12/8.

We wish everyone Happy Hari Raya Puasa and National Day.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

New Ticketing Email System

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:56:00 +0000

Dear Customer,

We have completed the testing the new Ticketing Email System and is ready to launch.

From 19/06/2013 onward, emails sent to our Ticketing Email System will be logged into the System.

All ticket will be given a Ticket ID for customer to refer to.

Customer is encouraged to refer to the Ticket ID when emailing for support.

Please refrain from sending multiple email regarding the same support request as this will slow down the time to get back to you.

Please email us if you have any questions or suggestions.

Warmest Regards

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Upgrading Knowledge Base and Help Desk System

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers

Our team is updating our Knowledge Base and Help Desk backend system to serve you better.

During the upgrade, there will be some test email from the new system.

Please ignore these automated email messages.

Regards

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Call Centre Work Flow

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

The Management has review the CallCentre work flow as following.:

Call Centre Number: (+65) 6100-8347

A. Sales Enquiry

Our Call Centre Team will be taking down your sales enquiry, our consultant will contact yo back with the relevant product and service information.

B. Support Request

Please leave a voice mail or visit our Support Portal at www.myvdh.com to open a ticket. Alternatively you can contact our customer service support via the following support channels:

1. Email Support
Customer can email to support@vdomainhost.com.sg for support. The system will assign the respective consultant to handle your ticket via email.

2. Livechat Support
Customer can make use of the livechat support button available at our Support Portal, www.myvdh.com to request for a livechat session.

3. Knowledge Base
Customer can visit the Knowledge Base at http://kb.myvdh,com and find our most frequently asked questions regarding your account.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Press Release: Live Demo for Exchange Cloud Email 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Fri, 31 May 2013 03:00:00 +0000

Dear Customer,

You ae welcome to arrange for a live demo session and come and join us for coffee to experience how Exchange Cloud Email 2013 can help increase your productivity.

Venture Domain Hosting is first to provide Exchange Cloud Email 2013. Exchange Cloud Email 2013 allow you to have mobility when you are on the move.

Business is no longer confined to the office. Exchange Cloud Email 2013 is designed specifically for touchscreens, mobile usability and offline productivity. It ensures your employees can be efficient regardless of location or device. Even if they’re nowhere near an Internet connection.

More details at http://www.vdomainhost.com.sg/microsoft-exchange-cloud-2013.html

Venture Domain Hosting

Vesak Day Holiday - Sales Team from 23/5/2013 to 26/5/2013

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

Our Sales Team will be taking a long long weekend from 23/5/2013 to 26/5/2013.

They shall be back on 27/5/2013 to resume sales operations.

We wish all Buddhist a very great Vesak Day ahead.

Venture Domain Hosting

Scheduled Maintenance for Phone PBX System from 12:30PM to 7:00PM on 22/5/2013

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Dear Customer,

The Phone PBX system is undergoing maintenance, you may experience problem reaching the phone line for 6100-8347 and 65-287-387, please leave us a voicemail.

Alternatively, please contact us via email, sales team: sales@vdomainhost.com.sg , customer service team: support@vdomainhost.com.sg

Regards

Venture Domain Hosting

Phone PBX under maintenance

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:30:00 +0000

Dear Customer,

The Phone PBX system is undergoing maintenance, you may experience problem reaching the phone line for 6100-8347 and 65-287-387, please contact us via email, sales team: sales@vdomainhost.com.sg , customer service team: support@vdomainhost.com.sg

Regards

Venture Domain Hosting

WordPress Security Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:30:00 +0000

Dear Customers

We wanted to take this time to pass along information regarding serious security vulnerabilities recently discovered in two very popular WordPress plugins. They are:

- WP Super Cache
- W3 Total Cache

These plugins have been reported as having a security hole that allows a hacker to control your WordPress installation by using a method called Remote Code Execution, which in this case is fairly simple to exploit. The good news is that the developers of both plugins have released a security update, disabling the vulnerable functions.

Customers that are running WordPress, with WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache installed, should immediately log in to their WordPress administration panel and upgrade the plugins as soon as possible in order to prevent the vulnerability from being exploited. Please note that if you have the plugins installed but they are not activated, it is still imperative that you update them, or delete them entirely.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Unscheduled Security Maintenance across multiple servers

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

Service affected: HTTP (Web)
Services NOT affected: email, MySQL (databases), FTP

Multiple servers are experiencing connectivity issues with the web server (HTTP) due to high server load and this issue is being investigated at this moment.

High server load issues with the servers are primarily due to a network attack.

During this outage, your websites will not be available. All other services are online and available. We apologize for this inconvenience and we will continue providing updates as soon as possible.

We are noticing that Joomla sites are among many of the sites being attacked across our server fleet. We will be adding more countermeasures to mitigate these attacks.

Server Monitoring Team

May Day Celebration

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

Our Sales Team will be take a break for May Day celebration from 30th April to 1st May. They will be back on 2nd May.

We wish everyone a great May Day ahead.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Exchange Service Status Update: Some customers hosted on the EXCH080 domain may be unable to connect with ActiveSync.

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:30:00 +0000

Dear Customer,

Service(s) Impacted:
ActiveSync

Some customers hosted on the EXCH080 domain may be unable to connect with ActiveSync.

Update:
Update (4:26pm PDT): All ActiveSync issues are functioning normally at this time.

Technical Details:
We have received a hotfix patch from Microsoft and will be installing it over the course of the next two evenings. If you experience any issues during this time, please contact our Support team for assistance.

Exchange Team

Scheduled Maintenance - Livechat Service

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

Hope you are having a wonderful day!

There will be server maintenance on the Livechat Service this weekend.

Duration Time
One hour and a half

Start Time
Sarturday Apr. 27th, 2013; 14:30 SGT

Complete Time
Saturday Apr. 27th, 2013; 15:30 SGT

Expected Impact
Connection to livechat servers will be interrupted during the release process.

Exchange Service Update: Some customers may be unable to connect to their mailbox via Outlook on west.exch021 or west.exch025

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Dear Customer,

Service(s) Impacted:
Outlook, Unified Login Page

Some customers may be unable to connect to their mailbox via Outlook or Unified Login Page on west.exch021 or west.exch025

Summary of issue:
Some customers may be unable to connect to their mailbox via Outlook on west.exch021 or west.exch025. Please note that users should still be able to access their mailbox through the direct OWA login URL.

Business Impact:
Customers hosted on west.exch021.serverdata.net or west.exch025.serverdata.net may be unable to connect to their mailbox via Outlook. Customers should still be able to access their mailbox through the direct OWA login URL

Technical Details:
Our System Administrators are currently aware of the issues and are working towards a resolution at this time. We will continue to provide updates as they become available.

Exchange Team

Press Release: Spam Register Directive

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:45:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

Based on a recent directive from the Spam Register, the datacentres are required to enforce a strong password policy across the board.

What the Spam Register needs your email users to do:

1. Passwords need to be at least 18 characters in length with both uppercase and lowercase characters, and also include numbers and symbols.
2. Change and update all email users' password on regularly basis - every quarterly.
3. Use a different password for different login.
4. Check computers for virus and trojans regularly.
5. Ensure all web applications and scripts (Wordpress, Joomla etc) are up-to-date.

The system machine (SYSOPS) will create accounts based on the requirement of having at least 18 characters in length with both uppercase and lowercase characters, and also include numbers and symbols.

The Spam Register is doing this to enhance overall protection of the Internet community, email users, to minimize Spam abuse by hackers, to minimize blacklisting RBL.

Regards.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Exchange Service Update: Some customers hosted on the EXCH080 domain may be unable to connect with ActiveSync.

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Dear Exchange User,

The Exchange Team has the following updates:

Service(s) Impacted:
ActiveSync

Some customers hosted on the EXCH080 domain may be unable to connect with ActiveSync.

Summary of issue:
The Exchange Team are currently installing most recent CU1 updates provided by Microsoft. We will continue to monitor the behavior to insure the service remains stable.

Business Impact:
None at this time.

Technical Details:
We will provide further updates as they become available.

Venture Domain Hosting Exchange Team

Exchange 2010 Service Notice: Exchange 2010 Customers on WEST servers may get disconnected from Exchange, and experience mail delays

noreply@blogger.com (Venture Domain Hosting) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Dear Customers,

The Exchange Cloud Server Team has issued the following Service Notice:

Service(s) Impacted:
Exchange

Exchange 2010 Customers on WEST servers may get disconnected from Exchange, and experience mail delays

Summary of issue:
Update: Exchange domains 21 through 28 are up and running. We are still working on getting part of domain 29 back online.

Business Impact:
Some users on west029 may experience sporadic disconnects with all clients as well as incoming and outgoing mail delays. Users on domains west021-west028 should now be able to use services as normal.

Technical Details:
The Exchange Cloud Sever system administrators are actively working on fixing the issue with west029 database, we will continue to provide updates as they become available.