Hostway offers a variety of cloud hosting platforms, suitable for a wide range of applications and workloads. By carefully considering the nature of your application, your business goals and your budget, you can build a solution that best supports your needs.
Rest assured that our flexible lineup of cloud hosting platforms is designed to support your evolving IT and business requirements, today and in the future.
Public Cloud, Private Cloud or Dedicated Servers – deciding which is best for your application can be confusing. Use the information on this page to help select the best platform for your requirements.
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| Developer Friendly | |
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| Fault Tolerant N+1 Architecture – Network\Compute\Storage |  |
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| 24/7 Technical Support – Phone\Email\Ticket | |
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| On-Demand VM Creation and Management | |
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| On-Demand Storage Provisioning | |
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| On-Demand Network Control and Management | |
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| On-Demand Firewall Control and Management | |
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| Ready to Deploy OS and App Templates | |
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| Windows and Linux Server Options | |
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| Managed Backup and Restore Services | Snapshots | Optional | Optional |
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| Predictable Monthly Billing | Optional | |
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| Public API for Development Integration | |
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| Dedicated Compute Servers | |
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| Dedicated Storage | |
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| Dedicated Management Plane | |
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| Anti-Virus Protection | Optional | Optional | |
| Managed Security Services – IDS\IDP\Log Mgmt\Mgd Firewall | Optional | Optional |
