Managing your information technology (IT) department is never easy. Maintaining an in-house staff and infrastructure is costly and time-consuming. This is why so many businesses are turning to managed providers offering round the clock monitoring and daily maintenance. There are a few signs that your business could benefit from managed services.
You Cannot Keep Up With Server Maintenance Schedules
One of the first signs that you might need help is if the business cannot keep up with normal server maintenance schedules. This means things like updates, load balancing and backups are not being done in a timely fashion. A lack of maintenance could be due to insufficient staff, lack of knowledge or poor planning. If maintenance goes undone, then your servers and IT infrastructure will start to suffer. Managed services will take care of maintaining your servers remotely.
Finding IT Talent Is Difficult
Another sign you might need third-party server management is if you cannot find the IT talent you needed for your business. You might not be able to find people locally with the right experience administrating servers or handling databases. The solution is a managed service plan like Smart Hands where a full staff of professionals is already in place. These professionals can provide all the IT services you need to make your business successful.
Costs Are Constantly Rising For No Reason
New IT departments often run over budget as issues are worked out. This becomes a problem when your IT costs are constantly rising for no real reason. This usually means that there is some problem acquiring the resources necessary to maintain and operate your servers properly. A managed service provider in a data center can help to stabilize costs. You will be charged a predictable rate for just the services you need. This can help to make your IT infrastructure far more affordable.
Server Performance Is Unacceptable
A final sign you could use a managed service is if server performance is unacceptable despite the best efforts of your staff. This could due to several different problems from hardware and carrier issues to daily oversights. The Smart Hands managed service plan can improve performance by locating your servers in a professional data center where they will be monitored 24 hours every day. Problems are addressed immediately to prevent performance issues.
The Advantages of Managed Hosting Services
Many businesses require the extra power that more sophisticated hosting services can provide, yet they lack the ability to properly manage all the intricacies that things like dedicated hosting bring. Things like providing your own support team, managing security, and performing maintenance can take a costly toll on resources and funds.
The good news is that there is an alternative for businesses that allows them to retain the same level of power without requiring heavy upkeep. Managed hosting services allow for certified professionals at Volico to take care of all your hosting needs.
Why Choose Managed Hosting Services?
There’s several points where managed hosting services will appeal over do-it-yourself hosting services. Namely security, reliability, and scalability will be addressed here as that’s what most modern businesses focus on.
Improving Security with Managed Services
Top-notch security requires constant maintenance. Patches and hotfixes need to be applied as soon as possible to deter cybercriminals from gaining unauthorized access to sensitive data. Active monitoring is a requirement to catch any intrusions or attacks that immunization doesn’t or isn’t able to catch.
Managed hosting services allow for constant, active monitoring of your website. This keeps your business and your customers safer than they would be otherwise.
Increased Reliability
Managed hosting services allow for a more stable environment. Active measures can be taken when there are shifts in the kinds of data being accessed or the amount of traffic that reaches your website to ensure that your website doesn’t stall.
Scalability
The best part about managed services is that they can help your website in becoming more flexible when it comes to scaling. For example, a website that normally runs with a dedicated hosting service can have cloud services enabled when the load is too great for the normal server to handle.
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