All too often, small businesses choose technology without a clear understanding of what is available and what they need. When business consultant and full-stack developer Pelle Uvebrant began working with Chair Care Patio he learned that their small website was hosted with Azure, leading to huge costs and a complicated and cumbersome support experience. Even worse, the website faced several technical issues that the Azure team was slow to address for such a small business.
As a result, Pelle quickly recommended a new hosting provider that could provide both the technical and support experience that the business needed.
With a quick web search, he discovered Everleap. Everleap offered a fully-managed private cloud solution, excellent customer support, and affordable pricing, which solved the client’s problems.
Here is the story of Chair Care Patio told from Pelle Uvebrant’s point of view.
SQL 2022 is available as a new option for your Shared SQL database in our Shared Cloud Hosting Plans or for Private SQL database servers. You can create shared SQL 2022 databases or order Private SQL servers in your Everleap Control Panel.
I posted previously about recently discovering that some of our Managed Hosting customers running nopCommerce sites were experiencing high traffic with no increase in sales activity. It seemed suspicious, and for those customers using our Advanced Monitoring service, we detected an increase in CPU resource usage and a noticeable slowing down of their sites. As it turns out, the traffic was from bad bots. We contacted our customers, let them know what we saw, and helped them fix the issue.
There are many options to prevent bad bots from affecting your site, but the best and ultimate option to strive for is to prevent the bot from hitting your site in the first place. Here I discuss my preferred method.
We recently discovered that a few of our customers running nopCommerce e-commerce sites were experiencing high traffic. You usually would automatically think it’s a great thing, however, the customers were not seeing any increase in sales activity. So something was wrong. Long story short, after investigating, the high traffic was from bad bots.
We discovered this issue when the Advanced Monitoring tool attached to one of our Managed Hosting customer’s site alerted us about an increase in CPU resource usage. On our Managed Hosting system, we don’t generally meter our customer’s bandwidth usage, but we will notice an increase in server resource usage. These bots were so pervasive that it caused the customer’s CPU usage to increase dramatically, causing a noticeable slowdown of their site.
There are many options to prevent bad bots from affecting your site performance and I’ll cover my preferred solution in a future post.
Our customers were thankful when we notified them as to what was happening with the high bot traffic activity. We provided assistance to help our customers deal with the issue.
That got me thinking about what would have happened if the customer was on a giant public cloud, like Azure or Amazon. On those public cloud platforms, you would be paying for all the in/out traffic you use. So, if you got hit with some nasty bots, you’d be on the hook for paying for the bandwidth. Since customers are paying for bandwidth usage, is there incentive for the giant clouds to help identify issues like bots? If you’ve ever dealt with this issue on Azure or Amazon, I’d be curious to hear about your experience.
For Everleap, since we include bandwidth as part of our flat monthly hosting fees, we do what we can to monitor our bandwidth usage as a whole and we try to actively look for these types of suspicious activities. We pride ourselves in being proactive to help our customers and that is the kind of service that our customers should expect from us.
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If you are a nopCommerce user, you may be wondering when you may need to upgrade your nopCommerce hosting services. There are a few key factors to consider when deciding whether to upgrade your hosting service. For our nopCommerce customers who outgrow our Shared Cloud Hosting solution, we do have an upgrade path to a Fully Managed Private Cloud Hosting environment.
In this post, we’ll explore some of the indicators that should motivate you to look into upgrading your nopCommerce hosting service.
Microsoft released .NET 7 in the last quarter of 2022. While it was always possible to deploy .NET 7 applications to our cloud hosting environment using Self-Contained Deployment (SCD), we now have .NET 7 (ASP.NET Core 7) installed on our cloud hosting servers. Therefore, customers can use Framework-Dependent Deployment (FDD) and Visual Studio 2022 to deploy their .NET 7 (ASP.NET Core 7) applications.
Visit Everleap to learn more about our .NET Core cloud hosting solutions.
Choosing the right hosting solution is essential when running a website or web application. Traditional shared hosting can work well for small sites with low traffic, but as your site grows and as you add more functionality to your site, you may need to consider upgrading your hosting service.
Everleap’s Fully-Managed Hosting is a great option that offers improved performance, better security, and expert support, making it an ideal solution for mission-critical sites.
So, when is it time to make the switch to a Managed Hosting service? Here are five signs that it may be time to consider an upgrade:
We often get questions regarding the differences between our Everleap Managed Hosting solutions and hosting at Microsoft Azure. So I thought I’d address this question here.
Let me say first that Microsoft Azure is a powerful public cloud platform. It is built for developers and can run virtually anything. Microsoft is continuously adding more functionality to address very niche technological use cases. Everything you can do on our Everleap platform, you can do on Azure. So, it is natural for anyone to ask then, compared to the Azure behemoth, why does Everleap even try to compete?
It’s a good question and the answer is that we are not really trying to compete with Azure on hosting technologies. We know that Azure will always have a deeper technology stack and a much bigger footprint than we will ever have. While our hosting functionality can overlap with Azure, Everleap fills a different need in the market. We focus on delivering services to small- and medium-sized businesses. We are not trying to be all things for all use cases. Plainly speaking, sometimes you may need the many tools of a Swiss army knife and other times you just need a good pair of scissors.
In 2003, we started traditional Shared Hosting at DiscountASP.NET, and we learned a lot. We saw that there came a time when customers needed to upgrade their site to a server with more resources. So when we first designed Everleap, we thought of the different situations our customers would encounter in their hosting journey. People needed a modern web hosting service that could quickly grow with their sites and one with practically no downtime. So we designed our Everleap Shared Cloud Hosting solution with the ability to expand from our basic Shared cloud hosting service to our private Reserved Server instantly with little to no downtime.
But now, what happens to those customers who require something more than our Shared Cloud Hosting platform?
In a nutshell, Everleap’s Managed Hosting Solutions are our white glove, customized, private cloud hosting service for mission-critical sites. It was designed specifically for organizations that require near-zero downtime – websites that are so important that it would literally put a halt to their business if their site did go down. We understand the importance of the requirements of mission-critical websites and the need for a hosting provider that can fully support them and an easily expandable hosting system that can grow with their business. Our Managed Hosting Services support the needs of mission-critical sites.
Expanding our service portfolio beyond website cloud hosting, we are excited to announce the launch of our new Managed Cloud Backup Solution. We believe that this solution will help your business stay resilient from ransomware, cyberattacks and other forms of data loss.
Your Mission-Critical Data Backup Simplified
Everleap’s Managed Cloud Backup Solution backs up business critical data from your on-prem servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices.