Today, many companies, unwilling to take on the costs of purchasing and maintaining physical servers, choose virtual platforms. By using the services of a hosting provider, you can create a high-quality Internet portal. At the same time, the provider’s team will provide technical support. Modern Ukrainian data centres use reliable data storage systems, high uptime is achieved by duplicating engineering infrastructure components, and guaranteed backups are implemented. However, customers sometimes use the services of foreign data centres. Why?
Foreign data centre: pros and cons
As a rule, the IT infrastructure of foreign data centres includes advanced equipment of the latest generation, quality standards in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, a high level of security and data storage control, and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) – standard (99.5% availability) and individual (up to 99.995%). To ensure data security, they use the latest IT solutions, firewalls, and communication channel encryption technologies. The data centre’s power supply is also implemented with a high level of reliability – up to TIER IV (everything is duplicated).
Why else might a foreign data centre be interesting for Ukrainian customers? Companies that provide hosting abroad usually have very flexible tariff plans. They strive to provide the client with a full package of services for the same price as the basic option. Customers consider such a service as offshore hosting due to the high quality of service, greater experience of employees, and high speed of response to problems. Any malfunction will be resolved as quickly as possible.
European data centres employ people who have been providing hosting services for many years, so they know how to prevent some problems and how to fix them in the shortest possible time.
For many domestic companies, an additional site abroad is also a business protection. Seizure of data centre equipment, illegal blocking, long outages – in Ukraine, all of these have to be taken into account as risk factors when hosting or renting physical or virtual servers.
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In addition, companies have a growing need to make online transactions more secure from government surveillance and cybercriminals. Therefore, those who need a server with data protection against unauthorised access and a guarantee of reliable operation often consider renting a server abroad. Finally, the financial stability of European data centre operators is another risk mitigation factor.
An overseas data centre also means stability. It implies both a favourable political and economic situation abroad and uninterrupted operation of the data centre. Customers of such hosting can be confident in the future of their web projects.
Meanwhile, thanks to encryption, data centre staff may not have access to your data at all. Data abroad will be fully protected.
Backup site
Often, a company’s IT strategy requires at least two data centres – a primary and a backup. And it’s no coincidence. After all, the loss of information or control over it at best guarantees large losses, and at worst it is a complete loss of business. That’s why deploying a primary and backup data centre is strategically necessary and justified for a serious company today. Of course, it is not cheap, but there is another solution – hosting.
The backup data centre eliminates downtime and ensures immediate recovery of server systems in the event of a failure or serious accident.
Using a foreign site of a hosting provider as a backup data centre means minimising both risks and costs. This arrangement ensures maximum security and reliability. From the point of view of competent construction of uninterrupted operation of sites, this is the right decision.
According to statistics, Ukrainian companies consider most of the projects for using foreign data centres from the point of view of creating two separate sites and systems that minimise risks. Thus, using the services of a primary and/or backup data centre in Europe is not only protection against raiding and administrative pressure, but also risk diversification and the creation of a highly reliable distributed IT infrastructure.
Conclusion.
Large and medium-sized businesses, legal, pharmaceutical, financial and investment companies, and retailers are now actively interested in foreign data centres. Interest from media resources may also increase.
Implementation of the project in Europe allows us to ensure a high level of data security – technological and legal, as well as optimisation of access speed for European customers due to the convenient geographical location of the containment zone (a modular data centre unit of the highest reliability class at present). VPS services will be offered to both Ukrainian and foreign customers of Allegros.