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Hosting is considered as one of the most critical part of today’s IT infrastructure. Your website, cloud-based office software, virtual machines, etc. are all backed with a hosting service, without which the services cannot be functional. When it comes to choosing hosting services, the market is full of alternatives; however, not all these alternatives may meet certain criterion that facilitate sustainable IT services. Avesta Company proudly considers itself as the provider of one of the top three cloud services in the world, which is Microsoft Azure. With the services that Azure provides, Avesta company has been able to reach considerable number of millstones in the IT industry in the region. The followings are a list of features that Azure provides that help the IT infrastructures to meet today’s standard criterion

Performance

Server Details

When it comes to computing performance, RAM, CPU, and andwidth have a direct effect on the overall performance of a computing resource. Microsoft Azure has considered that point; therefore, Azure enables users to freely pick from the resources that the applications requires in order to boost the applications to their maximum performance.

Elasticity And Scalability

During overloading periods, applications consume all the resources that have been given, and sometimes it reaches a point that there will not be any more resources to use, which eventually causes the applications to stop functioning. Microsoft Azure solved this problem with the two fundamental concept of elasticity and scalability. With scalability, it is possible to increase RAM, CPU, and bandwidth according to the application’s requirements while keeping the application up and running. Furthermore, when there is an unexpected load on an application, with elasticity feature, more resources would automatically be appended on an application’s resources in order to avoid putting the application in a down status. As a result, Microsoft Azure guarantees sustainable functioning of application even during overloading periods providing approximately zero down time.

Data Center Location

When it comes to the location of the resources that hold a particular application, nearest means fastest from a user’s point of view. Therefore, the closet a resource is, faster an application would be. Microsoft Azure provides datacenter in more than 54 regions globally. This variety of choices in regions facilitates everyone globally to pick the closest region and use the resources of the datacenters in that region, which overall highly increases performance from user’s point of view.

AVAILABILITY

SLA
SLA stands for Service-Level Agreement. It is an agreement between Microsoft Azure and its customers. According to Azure, Azure promises 99.9% up time in all its services. This point promises a sustainable availability to all the services that are hosted on Azure. As a matter of fact, most of the cheap host providers do not promise to provide this high level of up time.


Redundancy
As a matter of fact, sometimes problems occur not in from Azure, rather in the application itself. To avoid getting in down time periods, Azure also solves this problem by letting the application to hosted in multiple locations within Azure regions. When a problem occurs in one location, there would be another copy of the application in somewhere else that backs the other copy and avoids down time until the problematic copy would be fixed.

COST

With no doubt, cost is considered as an effective factor when it come to the choices between various hosting platforms. Since Microsoft Azure functions as a cloud service provider and it has the advantage of economics of scale, users are only required to pay to the resources that they use. Pay as you go feature is very prominent when it comes to investigating Azure services, which simply means you only pay for the resources that you have used. This, however, has two main advantages. First, it reduces wastage in the resources that the applications demand. Second, the amount the users need to pay would highly reduce. Therefore, when it comes to costs, Azure provides the most economic payment procedures for its hosting services.


SECURITY

No hosting platform can be trusted unless security is considered as one of the main features. Continuous online threats require everyone to consider security as the backbone of the IT infrastructure. Azure comes with several built-in features that highly promote safe application layer. For instance, Azure supports virtual firewalls within its virtual networks. Azure firewall consists of smart threat detectors that automatically eliminate threats on a particular resource. For instance, DDoS attacks are easily eliminated without leaving any negative effects on the resources. Furthermore, like a physical firewall, different rules can be applied inside a firewall that provides further manual security features. Also, the features such as, penetration testing, malware detection, intrusion detection, etc. are automatically embedded inside the virtual networks between the resources in Microsoft Azure

MONITORING AND ALERT

The process of continuous supervision of applications on a hosting platform may be a very overwhelming task. The owner cannot track the applications manually 24/7 to check for any vulnerabilities might occur even though the sustainable functioning of applications are the priorities of businesses. Microsoft Azure has considered this point and set it as a priority among the services that it provides. Azure Monitor is one of the most prominent features that Azure provides. With pre-defined rules, Azure Monitor send notifications to the application owner to notify the owner about the most recent status of the application. Notifications that Azure Monitor sends come in different forms based on the customer’s configuration. Email, SMS, and dashboard notifications are examples of alerting features the Azure Monitor serves. Therefore, with Azure, applications owners have information about their applications’ statuses without having manual supervision on the applications.

SUPPORT

From a business’s point of view, an application hosted on a hosting platform might be responsible for crucial business transactions. Therefore, the reach for the technical people responsible for the hosting platform is considered a crucial feature. Microsoft Azure never neglected the significance of this feature. Therefore, with more than four supporting plans, Azure provides 24/7 support for all the services on Azure. As a result, reaching the technical experts would be a very easy task. That way asking question, getting advice, exploring other alternative, or even raising a particular problem has been easer than ever with Azure. In conclusion, these prominent handful features from one of the top three cloud-based hosting providers clear all the doubts about being confused about choosing from all the various hosting services in the market. Microsoft Azure has been and is one of the most modern hosting platforms that highly meets the standards of providing suitable hosting services for various types applications.