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Understand the choices before you choose the platform.

Use our practical guides and comparisons to prepare questions, understand trade-offs and build a clearer infrastructure brief.

Infrastructure, considered together
WorkloadsApplications & data
InfrastructureCompute, storage & network
ControlsAccess, resilience & security
Illustrative architecture Scope agreed for your service

Turn research into a useful brief

The guides explain common infrastructure decisions and their consequences. Apply them to your application, data, team and service requirements rather than treating a single architecture as suitable for every workload.

Write down what is essential, what is preferred and what you need the supplier to demonstrate. Include dependencies and recovery objectives so a proposal can address more than the initial server specification.

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Guides & comparisons

How to Choose VPS Hosting

A practical guide to selecting a VPS: measure demand, compare CPU and storage allocation, choose Linux or Windows, and define management and acceptance.

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How to Choose a Dedicated Server

Build a dedicated server specification using workload measurements, hardware tradeoffs, database demands, bandwidth and a practical acceptance plan.

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How to Choose Cloud Hosting

Compare cloud hosting with VPS and dedicated options. Plan production separation, scaling, containers, SaaS dependencies and complete operating costs.

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How to Plan a Hosting Migration

Plan a hosting migration with dependency discovery, destination testing, database and email checks, controlled DNS cutover and a usable rollback plan.

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How to Define Recovery Objectives

Define recovery objectives from business impact, acceptable data loss and recovery time. Connect RPO and RTO to backup policy, restore tests and ownership.

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How to Secure Administrative Access

Build a practical server administration process with named access, SSH key ownership, recovery access, patch coordination and a defined network boundary.

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How to Choose a Datacentre Location

Compare datacentre locations using user latency, data flows, assurance evidence, connectivity and recovery needs. Build a clear location requirement for a quote.

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How to Build an Infrastructure Brief

Prepare an infrastructure brief that connects business outcomes, application inventory, capacity, monitoring, recovery and commercial acceptance criteria.

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VPS vs Dedicated Server

Compare VPS and dedicated servers by resource allocation, control, storage, scaling, operational responsibility and total service cost.

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Private Cloud vs Public Cloud

Compare public and private cloud by deployment scope, responsibility, capacity, supplier dependencies and the practical role of hybrid or multi-cloud designs.

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Managed vs Unmanaged Hosting

Compare managed and unmanaged hosting by maintenance ownership, access, response coverage, application boundaries, control panels and operating cost.

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Block Storage vs Object Storage

Compare block and object storage by application interface, data access, performance, permissions, recovery and the cost of requests and transfers.

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High Availability vs Disaster Recovery

Understand how high availability and disaster recovery address different failure scenarios, recovery objectives, dependencies and test requirements.

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Snapshots vs Backups

Compare snapshots and backups by recovery purpose, independence, retention, permissions, application consistency and practical restore testing.

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