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eNlight Cloud – Cloud Computing as it should be. Auto Scaling and Completely Cost-Effective

Today, eUKhost Ltd. introduces an entirely new cloud computing product called “eNlight Cloud” – a cost-effective, auto-scaling, pay-per-use cloud hosting solution. While “pay-per-use” sounds daunting, with eNlight Cloud, it allows you to pay only for the resources you may need and only pay for what you use, and so you will only be charged for what resources you use on your virtual machine. And eNlight will intelligently auto-scale resources to meet the demand and needs of your eNlight Virtual Machine up to the maximum resources that you have allocated to pay for, in the event that those resources are required; for example in the event of peak traffic to your business or online website(s). It is “pay-per-use” done right. With eNlight Cloud, you are always in control so no nasty surprises at the end of your billing period.

How does eNlight Cloud work?

“eNlight” is an intelligent cloud computing platform that works on the hardware virtualisation technique, with eNlight residing between the system hardware and the operating system of virtual machines. Resources (such as CPU and RAM) are automatically loaded as per the requirements of your virtual machine, with the resource scaling done automatically which is incredibly cost-effective, meaning eNlight Cloud will turn out to be a much more affordable solution to a dedicated or virtual private server.

The eNlight Cloud platform is powered with metering tools, which allows “pay per use” billing for eNlight Cloud customers, with resource usage statistics recorded every minute.

eNlight can intelligently detect when your virtual machine requires more capacity and resources, and will de-scale resources accordingly as required. This equates to a complete hosting solution while being cheaper than a virtual private or dedicated server, as for a large majority of server customers, not all the resources are used at any one time while a server is online, so you are not paying for resources you aren’t using unlike a virtual private or dedicated server.

eNlight Cloud comes with full root/administrator access.

Like a dedicated and virtual private server, eNlight Cloud comes with full root/administrator access, meaning you have full control over your eNlight Cloud VM while giving you the convenience of a ‘managed server’ solution by our in-house technicians, as do our VPS and Dedicated Server hosting customers enjoy. While you have full control over your eNlight VM, you can also ask our technicians to install any necessary services or software you may require on your eNlight VM at any time.

eNlight comes with the eNlight Control Panel, which provides server management of your eNlight VM. eNlight is like a standalone virtual server and so you can easily go ahead and install cPanel or Plesk if you wish by choosing the CentOSCP template when setting up a new VM upon after ordering your eNlight, for the management of web-based applications and data, while having the benefits of the eNlight Cloud scaling technology.

There are no contract periods with eNlight.

eNlight comes with absolutely no time-bound contracts, which equates to greater flexibility and freedom on the duration of your eNlight Cloud service. You can shut down your eNlight Virtual Machine at any time and only pay for what you have used.

eNlight is a cloud environment.

With centralised storage and backup servers in the case of hardware failure, with eNlight, we are able to offer a 100% uptime guarantee for your eNlight VM which is represented in our 100% uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA). This is the power of a centralised cloud hosting infrastructure.

eNlight Control Panel.

The eNlight Control Panel allows you to create and manage multiple virtual machines while leveraging the eNlight Cloud scaling technology with the power of a centralised cloud hosting infrastructure.

You can purchase multiple virtual machines running under eNlight right within the eNlight Control Panel.

What is eNlight suitable for?

eNlight is a perfect replacement for virtual private or dedicated server customers that are looking for a cloud computing alternative, with the benefits of our auto-scaling technology with the inherent cost-savings as a result.

You can easily have cPanel or Plesk as the control panel environment for website management on your virtual machine(s). If you are a web hosting provider, your customers being hosted on your servers with the eNlight backend will enjoy continuous speed and reliability irregardless of the resource requirements of your server. You can always ensure your eNlight service has adequate resources for any eventuality, for example in the event of a new product launch with your business.

Differences between eNlight and a standalone server?

eNlight is much like a virtual private server, using virtualisation techniques. Your eNight Cloud will consist of “virtual machines” and the resources of these virtual machines are managed automatically by eNlight in the background. Like a virtual private or dedicated server, you will have full (root) access to your virtual servers allowing you to the same control and customisability as you’d expect on a standard virtual private or dedicated server from us or any other web hosting provider. And of course, eNlight is fully managed too, so you can contact our senior technicians to install, update or upgrade any software or package you require on your virtual machines at any time.

How do I purchase eNlight Cloud or get further information?

You will find more information via our eNlight Cloud section of our company website, which is where you can also buy eNlight Cloud hosting. You can customise the resources you may need at any time throughout the lifespan of your eNlight VM on the page, prior to ordering (which are the maximum values of your VM). You can also change the maximum values of your VM (such as RAM and CPU) at any time.

If you have any questions, please contact our sales department. You can contact us via the client area, over the phone or talk to us over live chat.

Sales (Tel.) : 0808 262 0255

Sales (E-mail) : sales@eukhost.com

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Things Required To Get Online Presence

If you don’t own a website, but thinking of making one or already have one but doesn’t know if it really works. This article provides information essential to know which aspects should be considered when choosing your provider that meets your requirements.

Usually, when referring to a website, we take for granted or ignore all that it involves, it is important to know that a website is not everything and does not include all. It is just one of the components that helps to improve your business online presence.

Essential Services:

Domain Name: First and most importantly, a domain name will be the identity of your business on Internet. All your emails depend on it, it is what your customer and potential customers will remember to return to your website.

Web Hosting: The web hosting is a service that helps in creating your online presence. Here your domain name will be linked to a specific dedicated or shared IP address whichever you prefer. There are many uk web hosting companies that could offer different kind of hosting services in low cost.

Both of them are the essential services required to get online presence. Lets have a look at the optional services or you may say as Value-added services.

Optional Services or Value-added Services:

Website Maintenance: Maintenance shares a very important part in the success of a website. Seach engines always try to display results from your website and hence the website need to be online round the clock for search engines to be able to fetch new contents to update their database.

Server Administration: There are two different kinds of services normally offered to the customers. The most common one is allow client to take charge of their server administration, depending on their experience and knowledge of these services or allowing the web hosting service provider to handle all the administration part which costs a little bit extra and is listed under the Value-added services. Basically, this service is known as Managed Hosting, in which the web hosting service provider takes all the server management responsibilities allowing the customers to concentrate on their core business.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): It is an optional service provided by very few web hosting providers. Normally, these services are provided only by the SEO consultants, however nowadays few hosting providers have managed to offer these services as well, along with the web hosting services. The search engine optimization process helps websites to rank higher in search engines by optimizing their website using both the techniques: On-page optimization and Off-page optimization. Due to the large competition in every niche on Internet, SEO services have become necessary to stay on top of search engines in order to gain maximum benefits through search engines.

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Switching To VPS From Shared Server

Is your site outgrown and cannot stay longer in a shared environment ? Or, Is your new website a bit complicated having huge databases that requires quality resources more than a shared server offers ? If so, then it is the right time to move your website to a virtual private server.

However, before switching your website to a new vps hosting solution, you need to know the significant factors of a virtual private server and how it will affect the performance of your website ? First, lets find out what is a VPS ?

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server, a server which is formed by partitioning a physical dedicated server in to multiple small servers using a software virtualization technology is known as a Virtual Private Server. Each and every VPS that is formed has its own allocated resources of the overall server it rest on. However, except the CPU, all the resources allocated to each virtual private server is devoted and private. The resources allocated to a particular server cannot be utilized by any other vps running on the same server.

Switching to VPS from Shared Server

Till now, you may have been using the shared uk web hosting solution and due to various reasons you have decided to switch to a virtual private server, however it is necessary to know what kind of resources and features a VPS would offer you ?

Devoted Resources:

A virtual private server hosting account offers you dedicated server resources. The resources which is allocated only to you and cannot be used by any other client. Unlike the shared web hosting account you are assigned with a fixed amount of server resources such as Disk Space, Bandwidth and RAM which can be count as the guaranteed resources.

The disk space and bandwidth assigned to a basic VPS hosting plan might be sufficient to a particular size website, however the RAM size plays a very significant role in the performance of your website. Allocating a low RAM size might create issues for your website.

The minimum amount of memory allocated to a VPS is 128MB. This is really an insufficient amount of RAM and you should look for a VPS having at least 256MB of RAM to start with.

If you take a closer look at websites, you will find that most of the websites on Internet uses some kind of databases and graphical content which requires a specific amount of RAM for functioning properly. Unless, you are running the websites having basic requirements, you should be looking for a 256MB RAM in starting.

Some web host uk providers may offer you a burstable RAM, which allows to exceed the RAM size if there is a sudden traffic of your website. However, this cannot be counted as a guaranteed resources and you will have to upgrade you hosting plan, if your website kept exceeding the allocated RAM size.

Flexibility:

By choosing the vps hosting solution you get the root access to your server. The root access allows you to install, uninstall any third party software’s and applications that you cannot install on a shared server.

Security:

Unlike the shared server, you are more secured on the virtual private server, however, there are some basic vps security measures that need to be followed.

The virtual private server (vps) is a very cost-effective, stable, efficient, reliable, secured and sustainable hosting solution for small and medium sized businesses. Even though, if your site seems to be outgrowing, then the next right solution would be the dedicated server hosting solution.

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What Type of Hosting Servers Would Be Better ?

The straightforward and a perfect solution for this would be the web servers that fulfills the requirements of the clients effectively with a minimum investment. There are various types of web hosting servers available to select depending on different requirements of online shops. It is very much easy to classify a reliable and stable server with regard to the server operating systems, technical specifications of the server and the admin settings.

Many of the people would rather choose unique dedicated servers that are really impressive as a result it offers admin protection under the laws of the users.

The dedicated web servers allows you to manage your own tasks in the servers. It might look a bit different to you from the typical shared servers, where you will find lots of websites hosted on a single server. Usually, a dedicated server is devoted to a single client or website. People who wish host only their own products and services on a single server, the dedicated hosting is the right kind of solution for their requirements. Some of the online game playing companies, reseller web hosts and people who wants to host a mission-critical web application seems to be interested in such kind of solution. One of the core benefit of dedicated servers is to the end users, as their choices are enabled to a specific degree.

Even the customers has the ability to select their main operating system. Similarly, a reseller can easily manage your privileges on the server according to the requirements when it comes to a dedicated server.

One of the strategic solution is the virtual private server hosting for such requirements. It is a truly isolated server created on the same server that shares the hardware of a single physical dedicated server. The virtual private server offers the same functionality as the dedicated server offers. The only thing that differs and makes dedicated servers best from virtual private servers is the power of CPU it puts in to use for a single person.

In the virtual private server, the fixed resources like disk space, bandwidth and RAM are allocated, however, all the VPS formed on the same node shares a single CPU power, which affects all the vps. In dedicated server, all the resources including the CPU power is fully devoted to a single website, hence improves the performance of the websites and web applications hosted on it.

A good web hosting server is the one that supports all the types of operating systems. These type of popular servers are those that has Red Hat or Windows, as they are the most normally utilized OS’s by the end users over the web and Internet. The dedicated hosting servers tend to be the more costly compared to the web servers involving different operating systems, just because commonly they has Microsoft authorized applications, which are looked as the latest technologies happening inside the web development and web hosting industry. Due to the familiarity, the Windows based web servers are known to be more trusted and familiar when compared to the counterparts.

Intel is one of the important part of dedicated servers in increasing their performance. The high technology processors like Intel Xeon has successfully proved that servers having a Xeon processor has the ability to handle number of processes without any malfunctioning. Hence, the servers having a Dual Core, Quad Core, Dual Quad Core or Dual – Hexa Core Xeon processor tend to be the best web hosting servers for hosting heavy databases websites and large web applications.

There are also cheap dedicated hosting servers available on the market, and easily affordable because of the low features it offers. These servers allows a customer to take pleasure in the rights and admin properties being a user of a high end solution.

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Why UK Based Dedicated Servers Are Ideal For Your Online Business ?

If you are a citizen of United Kingdom and need to opt a dedicated server, why to think about the abroad web hosting server providers when there are local uk web hosting providers in the UK market. By opting uk based hosting services all the issues like bandwidth, customer support, technical issues can be addressed immediately.

For your online business requirements within the united kingdom, a uk web hosting service provider can get you quicker internet connectivity and a better interaction with your potential local consumers. This is really beneficial and usual choosing a web hosting service that runs within the same country you operate a business. Traveling towards the hosting company to check the quality of the infrastructure they have built or in case if you have moved your existing servers to that web hosting company could get very easy. Even if you choose an unmanaged dedicated hosting, you will always be in control over the server’s management by sending your own experts to the hosting company.

The main reason of choosing a dedicated server hosting uk is interacting with consumers, both local as well as off-shore, will be very cost-effective for you in the long run. For beginners, it is very beneficial being situated in the same country, when you need to interact with the customer support for resolving the server issues. You will be able to understand their native accents very easily. Indeed, it is very important point, when the company is situated in a different country and their accent barrier and different time zones becomes headache and creates difficulties in achieving excellent customer support.

Another good reason for choosing a uk based server is that you will receive better search engine results for increasing your business productivity. This is because, most of the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing have setup their servers in particular locations and displays the search results on the basis of the Geo-location. As a result, you website will get more priority in search engine results. It means you will gain more potential customers from the same time zone which will help you to cover up the local zone. Hence, to get better search engine results, you need to opt for dedicated server based in UK.

If you choose a managed dedicated server, the provider will offer you all the security you need to protect your online business. All the server resources will be allocated to your online business website and you won’t have to be worried about sharing your server or its resources with other websites like shared hosting. This is really important since most of the large organization holds sensitive database that requires to be protected and dedicated server hosting uk will ensure the security for your sensitive data.

While the cpanel web hosting may seem to be more cost-effective however, you will have to share the server resources with thousands of websites, that might affect your site adversely in terms of high page loading time if other websites starts eating more resources. Hence, having a managed dedicated server will ensure the entire server resources is devoted only to your website.

The dedicated server offers you complete flexibility over installing any third party applications and software’s, whereas on shared hosting you don’t have sufficient privileges to install your choice of application and need to use the pre-installed software’s and applications by the hosting company. Also, if you need additional resources like disk space, bandwidth and RAM you get the ability to upgrade your dedicated hosting plan as per your requirements.

Make your online business customers happy and offer them a website that is hosted by a uk web hosting provider. Boost your sales and increase your productivity by offering them a fast page loading business website.

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