Netgen has over the last few months looked at technologies to further assist clients with redundancy and hosting across the networks and servers we maintain and support for our clients. A number of these services have been migrated to our new cloud servers and are running very well and we have been more than surprised with the speed increases over the last 2-3 months.

In addition to the cloud services we have been introducing we have also moved some of our infrastructure from Johannesburg to Cape Town Hosting. We had a few outages that affected only the Johannesburg network this year so this has been a good move for clients and systems. The dual hosting centres allow Netgen to quickly move systems and also in the case of critical applications to have a mirror running on these servers.

If you believe you need a replicated solution for high availability we have just that for you. We have also increased all client contracts, at no additional cost to have 200% more bandwidth than originally contracted for the same price. The decrease in the bandwidth cost has allowed us to pass this additional bandwidth on directly.

Cloud computing allows us to easily scale systems that are in their early stages and as the requirements increase and change we are able within a few hours to increase memory disk and processor capacity of these servers. Also due to the nature of cloud servers we are able to switch machines immediately and seamlessly on the systems without any interruption of service. We have a host of options available with our cloud services starting at dual core servers expanded to sixteen core servers with 16TB SAN and 64 GB of memory. As these technologies grow we are also seeing price reductions in the cloud environment.

Remember all Netgen hosted servers – hosting centre or cloud services – are fully backed-up and maintained by Netgen 24/7. These servers are all monitored by external and internal agents and monitor systems. We look forward to discussing any new requirements with clients on any of these topics above and demonstrating these services.

 

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