Architecture
The architecture of your hosting environment has to meet several requirements:
- Stable
- Available
- Secure
- Possibilities for cost and time effective up or down scaling
- Alignment with the application software
Large or small, every hosting environment has to meet most of the requirements as noted above. This often needs a very good and well thought out plan, from development of your applications up to the management of your production systems.
We see a lot of progress in the area of web application development. New frameworks, tools and services make internet applications development a very interesting enterprise to undertake. However, the productivity of the developer is the main focus of most new technology and not hosting and scaling. This is understandable when we look at lowering server prices compared to rising costs to hire developers. On the other hand we must not ignore the fact that an ineffective hosting architecture in fact leads to high costs in the long term.
XS Networks has a lot of experience in advising organisations on software and hosting architecture. We can develop your hosting architecture and advise your development team to enable them to build scalable solutions which truly contribute to a cost effective operations department.