Let’s start by expanding on the acronym VPS - Virtual Private Server. This is basically a small slice of a much bigger pie or in our case a slice of a dedicated server.
Today’s IT infrastructures are increasingly complex, costly and cumbersome to manage. From desktops to servers to applications, virtualization has answered the call to control the rising tide of IT infrastructure costs.
By improving development and testing efforts and lowering overall hardware costs through consolidation, virtualization’s applicability has become more pronounced and widely implemented.
A VPS - Virtual Private Server allows us to extend the functionality of our everyday working environment to deliver a balanced approach to how we do business.
A VPS – Virtual Private Server is just the framework that allows our every day tasks to be expanded, consolidated, centralised and turned into a cloud computing environment.
Benefits of having a VPS - Virtual Private Server?
Expand:
- Services
- Work force
- Sales
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Consolidate:
- Work more efficiently
- Save money on maintenance
- Save time with a managed solution
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| Centralise:
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Cloud Computing:
- Benefit from having your working environment at multiple locations “In the cloud”
- Have access to your data when and where you need it most
- Lay the correct foundation for the extended growth of your business
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An example of solutions that we have implemented for customers:
Online Magazine
Online magazines distribute online marketing and campaigns which drive tremendous amounts of traffic to their websites so they demand more than basic shared Web hosting can deliver. Crashing due to overload is simply not an option.
The flexibility of a VPS – Virtual Private Server allows for an increase in dedicated server resources to be allocated to their working environment “On The Fly” to accommodate the constant battering of new and returning customers.
Design Studios
Graphic Design Studios want the flexibility to deliver a specialised service to their customer base and derive an additional revenue stream.
A VPS – Virtual Private Server can allow you to have granular control of your Web hosting service allowing you to make modifications and customised changes for your customers thereby providing a point of difference for your service offering.
Have the added benefit of delivering an additional service to your customers by being a Hosting reseller of Email hosting, Web hosting & Application Hosting allowing for greater customer retention and creating an additional revenue stream.
In-house IT, Networking & Service Technicians
Requiring a way to be able to manage either their own or a customer’s environment more efficiently and standardise working platforms and testing environments they sought out our assistance.
VPS – Virtual Private Servers allowed for the replacement of multiple servers in-house and the ability to move services and servers into a Data Centre environment for better manageability of resources thereby freeing up time and saving money on labour and associated hardware costs.
Streamlining for SMB’s - Small Medium Businesses
SMB’s have asked for a way to streamline their IT and to be able to outsource the management of these resources either because they do not have the expertise or the IT resources are too costly. At the same time they still require full access to their environment.
VPS – Virtual Private Servers provide the balance required for SMB’s Small Medium Businesses to be able to utilise managed services and have the flexibility of managing their own resources. Full access to Automated updates, Service Patches, Daily Backups, Quick Restore of Data & Resources, and easily add additional users for services all from one easy to use control panel without the need to manage your own hardware and the headache and cost that comes with it.
Offsite Backup service
SMB’s demand disaster recovery for their priceless data. There is a solution that involves having access to their information and the ability to be back up and operational within just hours of disaster.
VPS – Virtual Private Servers help minimise your exposure to the unknown and give you a calculated chance of being online and operational within hours if disaster strikes. With a combination of onsite and offsite automated back up services allowing for Daily, Weekly & Monthly backups on site and the added safety of having your data uploaded and removed from harms way providing piece of mind and super fast restoration of your data.
Application Servers:
Deploy mission critical services to your team without the need to invest in additional Hardware, Software and IT staff.
With VPS – Virtual Private Server Application Hosting offer team collaboration, calendar sharing, document sharing, project management, mobile data sync services and CRM Customer Relationship Management or deploy your own custom software solutions.
Some of our current solutions:
A VPS Virtual Private Server can run almost any software that you can run on your local environment giving you the flexibility to have:
- Shared Storage for multiple locations
- The ability to work from any computer with Internet access from anywhere in the world
- Delivery of your applications to many sites at the same time
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- Full control over your virtualised environment
- Increased resources as you need them
- Velocity Managed or self-managed environments
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*Save time * Save money *Work more efficiently
The above are just a few examples of solutions we have provided for customers using a VPS - Virtual Private Server these solutions can be used in any business and cloud environments.
Speak with one of our Solutions Consultants to tailor a VPS - Virtual Private Server to your needs today.
Our team is waiting on line now to answer all of your queries.
Simplify your IT. What are you waiting for?
Kind Regards
Gerardo Altman
Solutions Consultant
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