For those developers who have been looking for an alternative hosting solution to the giant Public Cloud Hosting Providers because you are fed up with the unpredictable hosting costs and the “never-there” support, then you’ve come to the right spot.
Let me explain and get to the point.
In tech, we can’t know everything. When given the task of setting up one of your clients on AWS or Azure, you may encounter some learning curves that you probably would rather not deal with. We understand your frustration and we are here to help you. Let me tell you about some of the advantages Managed Hosting Solutions with Everleap provides for the .NET Developer.
As a .NET Web Developer, your clients will need their applications hosted somewhere. Many developers and clients may choose to use a Public Cloud offered by the giant companies like Microsoft and Amazon. However, you may want to check out Everleap’s Managed Hosting solution too, as we offer many benefits that will help your .NET development business.
Choice Overload
One of the most confusing things a .NET Developer faces is the magnitude of different options available on Public Cloud hosting environments. You have so many options you don’t know where to start – it can truly be choice overload. How do you know that the setup you are configuring for your client is the correct and best setup for their requirements? In short, in the best of worlds, you really only want to worry about the .NET application and not have to worry about the server it’s on.
Security
You may or may not be a security expert, but you are right to be concerned about how to secure the hosting system for your client. It would be so much easier if you had some knowledgeable expert available to help you, that you didn’t have to pay a lot for.
Monitoring
In addition, your client would love for you to monitor their application 24/7, but who has the time and resources for that? How would you even monitor the application? It would be great to be able to proactively let your client know of some issue and how you will resolve it, rather than having the client contact you when they notice something is wrong.
In this post, I will highlight the benefits of our Managed Hosting solutions that help the .NET Developer’s business, especially addressing the issues that I brought up above.
Before I get to the main point of this article, I acknowledge that even though Everleap is the perfect hosting environment for your nopCommerce site, it can be a little confusing for many people.
In this article, I’ll try to cut to the chase and explain why Everleap is the best environment for nopCommerce. And hint: It’s primarily because it is easy to instantly upgrade your site within our environment with pretty much no downtime. Here, let me explain…
In my last blog post, I discussed how you can use CloudFlare to prevent bad bots from getting to your site. But, what happens if the bad traffic still remembers your old IP number for the original web server and the bots still get through.
Recently we had one of our Managed Hosting customers experience this very problem. We helped find a solution to this issue.
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.
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:
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.
You asked for it and you shall receive! We have been getting increased requests and questions about support for two-factor authentication (2FA) for the control panel. I’m happy to announce that the answer is now, YES.
The 2FA system works through a verification code sent via text message. Check out our knowledge base article to learn how to enable 2FA and secure your control panel login, today!