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Windows Cloud Server Provider Comparison

Two Options: Virtual Or Dedicated Server

Windows Cloud Server providers offer suitable solutions for strong web presences – whether private website, company presence or online shop. You can choose an inexpensive Windows VServer (virtual server) or a dedicated Windows root server. You can choose between various tariffs and comfort functions. Match the required system resources to your web projects and choose the best Windows hosting solution within your budget.

Your hosting company will provide you with technical expertise and competent service. Your hosting company will be happy to advise you on the choice of the ideal hosting concept – by e-mail or telephone.

The Right Server For Every Need

windows cloud applications officeYou need a powerful infrastructure for your private internet presence, your company website or your online shop? Would you like to provide your employees with software services in a simple and flexible way without having to purchase expensive hardware and pay for expensive maintenance work? Then a Windows Cloud Server is the right choice for you. Experienced hosting service providers offer you first-class service at a fair monthly price.

For example, choose a virtual server on which you can set up Windows-compatible software for your employees and secure data storage. Or you can opt for a dedicated server: Here you can use one or more physical servers exclusively for your project or applications. Depending on your existing know-how, you can set up and maintain the servers yourself. You can also take advantage of ASP hosting. You will not find comparable reliability and performance with a “free” hosting provider.

With a scalable server cloud, you can configure computing power, memory and storage space to meet your needs. Here you can create several virtual machines with either a Linux or a Windows operating system.

VServer, VPS, Root Server – What Does That Mean?

cloud serverA VServer is a virtual server where multiple users share physical system resources (CPU, RAM, hard disks, etc.). Parts of the physical resources are permanently assigned to a VM (virtual machine). This is called “encapsulation”. Each user thus has full root access to the operating system and its VM within its “capsule”.

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and is another term for V-Server. The emphasis here is on “private”: a VPS is also a virtual server, but each tenant receives a fixed allocation of physical resources. This is called “encapsulation”. Each tenant also has full access to the operating system (root access) within his “capsule”.

This Is Why VPS Is Also Referred To As A Virtual Root Server.

A Home For Your Web Projects

If one compares the server infrastructure with a large, well-equipped house, then a V-Server corresponds to a rental apartment. All tenants share the house, but are otherwise completely independent of each other in your apartment.

Dedicated servers: The Premier Class Of Web Hosting

With a “real” root server, the so-called dedicated server, on the other hand, you rent the whole house. The complete server hardware and software is exclusively available to you and your web projects. Dedicated servers are therefore the ideal solution and are suitable for professional Internet presences with high traffic (i.e. high data or visitor traffic), which require a correspondingly high computing power and a lot of storage space.

Summarized

  • With the V-Server you share the system resources with others, but you have full access to your virtual machine.
  • With Dedicated Server, you have all system resources for yourself and full access to the server.

Windows VServer

Thanks to a special form of encapsulation, our virtual Windows servers give your web projects a secure and comfortable home with privacy and full creative freedom – including root access. Enjoy guaranteed performance in terms of storage space and computing power, as well as many convenience functions and other optional features. You determine the size and furnishings according to your needs and budget. And if you want it to be the whole house, simply select one of our dedicated servers.

The Best Windows VServers Usually Have The Following In Common

  • Consistently high performance thanks to encapsulation – you don’t even notice that you share a physical server with others
    Management of your web projects from any internet-enabled device.
  • the Windows servers are of course IPv6-ready
    Integration of large database applications via MSSQL Server. Application programs can be linked via the .NET framework, on which ASP is also based.
  • Status monitoring through comprehensive monitoring services. If services do not work properly, you can be notified by e-mail or optionally by SMS and can react immediately.
    keep an eye on server operation with TrafficControl and use the server
    thanks to the Recovery Manager rescue system, the server can still be accessed even if normal access is not possible.
  • Windows virtual servers ideal for cloud computing.
    Easy setup of your Windows VServer thanks to the popular and intuitive Plesk management interface.

Additional features such as ClusterIP for even higher reliability or an SSL certificate for the secure data connection between server and clients can be added to any tariff on request.

Cloud Hosting For Startups A Must Have

cloud for startupCloud hosting is often the better alternative to self hosting, especially for startups, and contrary to widespread prejudices it is not only worthwhile for large numbers of users, since only what has actually been used is paid for. In addition, cloud hosting is easy on the nerves, since reliability and scalability are built in at the same time.

Whether Windows or Linux, whether .NET, Java, PHP, Node.JS or Ruby, Windows is the platform for all online services, app backends and websites. Control is important? With the Windows Azure infrastructure services the operating system can be determined completely individually. Infrastructure as a Service, with all the flexibility of the Windows Azure Cloud.

If you want a little more, it’s worth looking at additional services such as managed hosting of web applications or the use of ready-to-use services such as databases, mobile push notifications or Hadoop. Windows Azure is already very broadly based and new services are constantly being added to further simplify use and enable new scenarios.

Linux, MongoDB & Co in the Cloud – With Windows Azure

All IaaS offerings, such as the provision of virtual machines and networks, converge under the generic term infrastructure services. Little is known to this day that Linux is supported natively alongside Windows. The format used is portable. Virtual machines can be downloaded at any time and run locally, which means there is no danger of lock-in, as is often the case with other platforms.

In cooperation with the manufacturers of well-known distributions, ready-to-use basic images are also offered directly in the Azure portal, for example Ubuntu, Suse, CentOS and many more. In addition, MS Open Tech operates VM Depot, a catalog of preconfigured Linux images accessible from the Windows Azure portal, which are already fully equipped with applications and stacks such as LAMP, Ruby, MongoDB, LAPP, Redis, WordPress, Drupal and HAProxy.

In addition, Windows Azure offers the possibility to use your own specialized Linux images. These can first be set up and tested locally before being uploaded and run on Windows Azure.

Within Windows Azure, virtual machines can be linked via virtual networks and configured via a browser. In the same way, a connection to an existing local network can be configured within a few minutes, for example to implement hybrid architectures or to restrict access to certain services.

Windows Azure: More Performance With Less Effort

The range served by Windows Azure is very broad, which is not least what makes Microsoft’s cloud platform so attractive – also and especially for startups. In addition, specialized service offerings remove common stumbling blocks.

An example of this is the database service Azure SQL, which provides a fully managed database: The responsibility for administration, maintenance, backup, high availability etc. is assigned to the operator. For Windows Azure users, this will significantly reduce their own costs at a monthly price of around one euro per gigabyte.

Other examples include the scalable, highly available and virtually infinite Windows Azure Storage or the Mobile Services with their uniform API for sending push notifications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. There are also the Windows Azure Media Services, which enable cross-device video streaming in the simplest way, and the Hadoop service HDInsight, which allows big data analyses to be carried out without any preparatory work or investment.

These few examples alone demonstrate the enormous versatility of Windows Azure. Especially companies in the critical start-up phase can benefit enormously from this flexibility and ease of use.

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