Indiana Server Hosting

why choose LightBound Managed Servers Hosting

Friday, February 5, 2010 by Ron Pirau

LightBound offers Managed Servers Hosting as do several other Indiana Server Hosting companies. Why choose LightBound over others?   See below for a few reasons:

1) LightBound has been supporting IP services since the mid-90's through their ISP service and has a fully redundant, high capacity Internet connection directly connected to the NAP, peeering with Equinix packet exchange.   LightBound also has four connections to top tier Internet providers at the NAP so Internet service is going to be rock solid high speed internet in Indiana. LightBound has total control and visibility of it's Internet upstream connectivity. other providers may have several connections to ISP's. LightBound IS the ISP for managed servers hosting.

2) LightBound provides a flexible, customized server hosting rather than just a few options.   You can choose bare-metal and work with your internal IT staff or IT consulting firm to provide OS, development or application platform, or LightBound can provide all these services.

3) LightBound deploys security technologies at the VM level to secure your managed server from other environments. This has been designed to satisfy compliance regulations. This provides the most cost effective model for the customer versus dedicating server blade in a chassis to each customer.

4) LightBound has Data Disaster Recover/Business Continuity service to provde computer and phone directly for your internal staff to get to managed hosting services with 32 seats ready to go and capacility for up to 60 workstations. No worrying about a third party to deliver this service.

5) LightBound has 19 telecommunication carriers with facilities in the data center. If your business has multiple branches and terminates circuits in the data center to get to the managed servers cost efficienciences can be realized by choosing from the manay carriers to get the best cost.

Indiana Server Hosting

Friday, December 18, 2009 by Brandon Ring

Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. Many providers state that they aim for at least 99.9% uptime (roughly equivalent to 45 minutes of downtime a month, or less), but there may be server restarts and planned (or unplanned) maintenance in any hosting environment, which may or may not be considered part of the official uptime promise.

Many providers tie uptime and accessibility into their own service level agreement (SLA). SLAs sometimes include refunds or reduced costs if performance goals are not met.

Colocation for Business Continuity

Monday, October 12, 2009 by Ron Pirau

Businesses have to plan for operating in event of a disruption in business operations at their main facilities. This planning is commonly referred to as business continuity. Since most business rely heavily on IT it would make sense to plan on having critical resources available over the Internet. Internet is highly available so employees can access when they are on the road traveling away from the office or working at home. To keep the business up and running it would pay off to have your critical information backed up using off site data backup service and using server collocation to have backup servers or primary servers This would surely help in data disaster recovery if the primary location was every effected by a power outage, damage of equipment, or theft. The data housed on equipment at the data center or back up service could be restored and get the business up and running at the main facility. LightBound can be a one stop shop for business continuity needs providing WAN, Indiana Server Hosting, and Internet Service Indiana.

Save on operational costs with managed servers hosting

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 by Ron Pirau

In today's tight economy many companies are looking for ways to cut or control operational expenses or increase productivity of employees. One way to do this is through managed servers hosting with an Indiana server hosting company that has high speed Internet in Indiana. Many companies have IT personnel who would be better focused on improving business processes specific to the company. If a company would move the application servers to a managed servers hosting company the day to day maintenance and updating of the underlying operation system would be taking care of. When in house personnel do the updates and maintenance they are wasting time on work that could be done more efficiently by a company that specializes in support of servers. The company IT employees are much more familiar with their internal business process and applications and would be better off spending their time in creating competitive business advantages by making improvements on those processing. Another way to cut costs is when an IT employee leaves voluntarily consider hiring a company who provides managed servers hosting to provide the services that the previous employee took care of. The cost for paying for IT support services for Indiana Servers Hosting may be less expensive in the long run the hiring a direct employee. Data centers with Internet Service Indiana can provider managed servers hosting and help increase productivity of your IT employees.

Why 24 x 7 Business Continuity is needed in todays economy

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by Ron Pirau

How many businesses in Central Indiana can afford to maintain a staff 24x7x365 to support their IT systems? How many businesses need 24x7x365 to remain competitive in today's always business environment? All of them! In order to do so many businesses are migrating to an environment that provides business continuity 24 x 7 in order to accomplish this. Moving critical applications to managed servers hosting environment or server collocation in an Indiana Server Hosting Data Center can accomplish this. A data center that has 24x7 network operations center staff can provide data disaster recover in the event an issue happens with one of the servers. In additional moving to a VoIP PBX and locating in the data center using voice services from a VoIP service provide can bring an extra level of business continuity. This type of service is not only for large Enterprise customers. Small Business server hosting can also be done quite cost effectively. WAN consolidation can also provide enhanced business continuity by centralizing in a data center where business applications reside. WAN consolidation also provides considerable cost savings in many cases. The only way this will work for companies is by using high speed Internet in Indiana. Providers of Indiana DSL Internet, Ethernet or T1 Internet can provide this high speed Internet Connectivity. The data center and managed services can provide round the clock support in a highly available and reliable facility at a fraction of the cost of employee staff to perform the IT support functions. To keep businesses running 24x7 this should be a key part of a successful business strategy.