Secure Cloud Hosting and Cloud Security

Hosting.com is proud to operate a quality over cost operating model for its infrastructure and security components. The standards-based managed plat­form provides customers with virtually unlimited resources of memory, processing and storage. In addition, Hosting.com has not experienced a cloud outage in nearly two years.

Hosting.com’s takes a practical, versus creative, approach to cloud security. Creativity exposes you to unnecessary risks. All data flows through physical firewalls instead of virtual firewalls to ensure your data is traversing a control point. Our approach isolates traffic and prevents customers from co-mingling on shared servers. All Hosting.com data centers are SAS 70 Type II and PCI Level 1 compliant further protecting your data and mission-critical applications.

In spite of hype to the contrary, the vast majority of security issues that arise for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) clouds are identical to those encountered in conventional implementations (e.g., personnel issues, physical security, backup and recovery). The few issues that are unique to the cloud - intrusion detection, data location and regulatory compliance - can be handled with a combination of technology and simple good management.

In most cases, Hosting.com provides you with security superior to traditional on-site security measures. For example, organizations with small IT departments have firewalls installed by value-added resellers (VARs) on a set-it-and-forget-it basis. When new requirements arise, such as providing selective access to VoIP services, the IT department may lack the resources or the skill set to respond. Hosting.com achieves economies of scale by amoritizing the cost of security over multiple customers and makes affordable enterprise-level security measures within your reach.