Today, many companies, not wanting to take on the costs of purchasing and maintaining physical servers, choose virtual platforms. Using the services of a hosting provider, you can create a high-quality Internet portal. And at the same time, the provider’s team will provide technical support. In modern Ukrainian data centers, reliable data storage systems are used, high levels of uninterrupted operation are achieved due to the duplication of engineering infrastructure components, and guaranteed backup copies are implemented. However, sometimes clients resort to the services of foreign data centers. Why?
Foreign data center: pros and cons
As a rule, the IT infrastructure of foreign data centers is advanced equipment of the latest generation, quality standards in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, a high level of security and data storage control, SLA (Service Level Agreement) – standard (99.5% availability) and individual (Up to 99.995%). To ensure data security, they use the latest IT solutions, firewalls, communication channel encryption technologies. Data center power supply is also implemented with a high level of reliability – up to TIER IV (everything is duplicated).
What else can a foreign data center be interesting for Ukrainian customers? Companies that provide hosting abroad usually have very flexible pricing plans. They aim to provide the client with a full package of services for the same money as the basic option. The high quality of service, greater experience of employees, and high speed of response to the occurrence of problems compels us to consider such a service as foreign hosting of clients. Any malfunction will be eliminated as quickly as possible.
European data centers have people who have been engaged in hosting services for many years, so they know how to prevent some problems from occurring, how to eliminate problems in the shortest possible time.
For many domestic companies, an additional platform abroad is also business protection. Seizure of data center equipment, illegal blocking, long-term outages – in Ukraine, all these must be taken into account as risk factors when placing or renting physical or virtual servers.
In addition, there is a growing need for companies to make online transactions more secure from government surveillance and cybercriminals. Therefore, those who need a server with data protection against unauthorized access and a guarantee of reliable operation often consider the option of renting a server abroad. After all, the financial stability of European data center operators is another risk-reducing factor.
Foreign data centers are also stability. It refers to both a favorable political and economic situation abroad, as well as the smooth operation of the data center. Clients of such hostings can be calm about the future of their web projects.
Meanwhile, data center employees may not have access to your data at all thanks to encryption. Data abroad will be fully protected.
Reserve site
Often, a company’s IT strategy requires the presence of at least two data centers – a primary and a backup. And this is not accidental. After all, the loss of information or control over it at best guarantees large losses, at worst it is a complete loss of business. Therefore, the deployment of a primary and backup data center for a serious company today is strategically necessary and justified. It is clear that it is not cheap, but there is another solution – hosting.
Backup data center allows you to eliminate downtime and ensure the possibility of immediate recovery of server systems in case of failure and serious accident.
Using a hosting service provider’s foreign site as a backup data center is a minimization of both risks and costs. Maximum safety and reliability is achieved with this scheme of work. From the point of view of the competent construction of the uninterrupted operation of the sites, this is the right decision.
According to statistics, most of the projects of using foreign data centers are considered by Ukrainian companies precisely from the point of view of creating two separate platforms and systems that minimize risks. Thus, using the services of the main and/or backup data center in Europe is not only protection against raiding and administrative pressure, but also diversification of risks, creation of a highly reliable distributed IT infrastructure.