Cloud Solutions
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
A straight comparison, including the cases where keeping your own server is the right call.
On-premise is still asked about as often as cloud, which reflects a real and continuing question rather than a settled one.
Cloud wins on resilience, patching and the ability to change your mind about capacity. On-premise still wins where a regulator or a customer contract requires data to stay on your own hardware, where connectivity is genuinely unreliable, or where a large steady workload has already been paid for.
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
Systems for organisations where several departments, sites and approval chains all have to work from the same data.
Moving a business off paper and spreadsheets without stopping the business to do it.
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
People look for this subject using a lot of different wording. These all describe the same thing, and this is the page for all of them.
Not inherently — but it is only as secure as the person maintaining it. An unpatched server in an office is a bigger risk than a managed cloud service, and that is the comparison that usually applies.
Yes, and many organisations do — sensitive data on premise, everything else in the cloud, connected over a private link.
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Describe it in your own words and we will tell you what it would take, or whether something simpler would do the job.