{"id":719,"date":"2022-09-12T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southernsolutions.co.uk\/?p=719"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:15:46","slug":"cloud-hosting-how-can-your-business-benefit-from-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southernsolutions.co.uk\/news\/cloud-hosting-how-can-your-business-benefit-from-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Cloud Hosting\u2019 and how can your business benefit from it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

What is \u2018Cloud Hosting\u2019?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Cloud hosting is the concept of using another person or organisation’s infrastructure to service your own requirements, generally, this comes in the form of a Cloud Service Provider. Here at Southern Solutions, we utilise many cloud service providers<\/a>, our most notable being one of the market leaders, Microsoft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Cloud hosting can include things such as email, hosted applications, services accessed through a website, and remote desktop solutions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It\u2019s not as scary as you may think.<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Many services that you already use may include some cloud features that come at no extra cost. These services will utilise a fully managed and maintained environment that is frequently updated, monitored 24\/7 and provided with 99,99% uptime, which is approximately 48 minutes a YEAR.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Businesses get worried about storing their data online, but hosting your services on the cloud should be considered more secure than keeping your data in-house. Take your flat file data, for example. You may store thousands of Word and Excel files on your server. That server may be protected by a basic business firewall which you rarely update and do not subscribe to advanced protection features. Your server is at risk of physical theft, and cyber attacks on your basic and dated firewall will almost certainly get through if given enough time. Microsoft spend millions of dollars a year on their security, and when configured correctly, it can provide a rock-solid solution with almost no chance of your data getting into the wrong hands.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We, by default, enable MFA which requires users to utilise a mobile phone to login to their accounts from a new device. This blocks 99.9% of attacks immediately. We then couple this with conditional access policies to ensure we only allow connections from designated countries. Finally, we place rules on the accounts that will block suspicious activity, even if originated from the UK. Equivalent security hosted in-house would cost thousands of pounds a year.<\/p>\r\n

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Total Cost of Ownership<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Immediate figures may not indicate a saving, but it\u2019s important to calculate the total cost of ownership savings compared to traditional on-site servers. With energy prices soaring, now may be a good time to get in touch so we can carry out a Cloud Readiness check<\/a> on your business!<\/p>\r\n

Some savings include:<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n