Remote working options are more common than ever & statements such as “You must move to the cloud” and “Are you in the cloud yet?” aren’t being heard loudly and clearly enough by many organizations. It’s imperative that employees have access to their desktop applications, no matter where they are. Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is a unique service in South Africa provided by ERP Experts, aimed at organizations using accounting or financial services and wanting to move to a private cloud-hosting service.
Not all organizations are ready to move to cloud-based accounting services because, in many cases, these services don’t have the comprehensive functionality they require. However there’s now no reason why an organization can’t host desktop applications on a virtual private server. This provides an organization with the best of both worlds: the ability to continue using highly featured accounting systems combined with hosting them in a secure, private cloud infrastructure. We specialize in hosting services for Sage 200 Evolution and Sage 50 Cloud Pastel Partner.
What is a Virtual Private Server (VPS)
To understand this fully, let us break it up into the three parts that make up VPS.
- Let’s begin with the virtual aspect.
Virtual technologies allow physical server resources to be divided and act as multiple online servers. What this means in simple terms is that, one physical server that a company owns can be used to function as multiple online servers for others to use to host their websites.
- Next let’s take a look at the private part of VPS.
By subscribing to a private server you don’t have to share any resources with any other users. Your bandwidth, RAM, storage etc. is set aside for your use only.
- Finally let’s discuss servers.
A server is just a computer which stores all files and data related to your company. These computers are extremely powerful.
5 primary benefits of VPS hosting
- It’s easily configured and managed from a hardware resources point of view.
- Recovering from a disaster is far simpler and faster if you have the correct disaster recovery support.
- It’s much safer to host your servers off your premises as it eliminates the risk of power issues, hardware failure and the possibility of theft.
- It allows you to access your servers from multiple locations with ease.
- It’s hosted in a tier 3 data center on reliable, redundant hardware with dual power supply, fire proofing, air-cooling, backup generators and Internet connectivity.
It’s easy to move to a hosted environment. Our help is included!
We use one of two methods to migrate your servers to our infrastructure, depending on your server infrastructure.
- We can install a VMware converter tool to migrate your server infrastructure directly to our hosted platform across a secure VPN tunnel.
- We can take a full system backup of your servers and then restore your VMDK files to a VM created for you.
Networking and firewall configuration and testing is done before any hosted failover begins. Note that all licensing should be maintained, and applications and systems will remain intact during and after the migration.
Lets get you to the cloud
In summary, there’s no need to stop using Sage 200 Evolution or Sage 50cloud Pastel Partner accounting software because you want it in the cloud. With a virtual private server hosted in a tier 3 data centre, you can keep your full-function accounting services up and running and benefit from the advantages listed above. call us today on 011 568 7795 or email [email protected]
