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London, 6th June 2013 - Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, announced today it has been awarded two 'Business Service Innovation' awards by Global Telecoms Business for Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC).

Why outsource your hosting? It just makes sense. As you streamline your business, your IT infrastructure becomes more costly and complex. You also need expert staff to look after it.

Interoute's Dedicated Hosting Services provide business critical applications a platform with the stability and performance they demand. The service allows businesses to focus on the unique element of their IT function, by outsourcing the time consuming operating systems and infrastructure management.

More and more businesses are moving their propositions online so that they can interact with their customers wherever they are the world. Shops that were previously restricted to trading in local markets can now sell their products nationally and in many cases globally. Others have reaped the benefits of reducing their overheads such as rent and boosting their profit margins as a result. As the .com bubble of the early 2000s demonstrated however it isn't simply a gold rush. To have an effective and competitive online proposition, an e-commerce site needs to perform well, have high uptime, process requests quickly and smoothly and be secure whenever a user interacts with it.

Any business shopping around for a web hosting solution will no doubt come across terms such as shared hosting, virtual private hosting (VPS), managed hosting and, the latest to enter the lexicon, cloud hosting. Often the holy grail is purported to be, if you can afford it, dedicated hosting, but what exactly are the reasons for choosing a dedicated hosting solution and is it the right fit for you?

For any individual or business looking to set up or move the hosting of their website or IT infrastructure, the number of different options facing them and the jargon used by each hosting provider, can appear bewildering.

Of course if an e-commerce site has recurring down time or reliability issues, the consumer may be put off using that site due to the expected hassle it may cause them if, for example, they are half way through a purchase when things go wrong.

The traditional path for most businesses and private clients to follow when they require web hosting is to purchase a hosting package which gives them access to space on a physical server, housed within a secure purpose built data center, together with a degree of support. This lens explores this route it a little more detail.

London, 23 October 2013: Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, has today announced the launch of its free Jump StartUp package which will give startups and developers access to its flexible, on-demand cloud hosting service, Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC), for up to a year. Interoute VDC is the only cloud service to offer free data transfer across Europe, giving startups unrestricted access to Interoute's networked cloud computing.

The following trilogy of articles investigates the benefits and drawbacks of cloud hosting in comparison to the more traditional 'all singing, all dancing' hosting solutions of dedicated servers. It aims to discuss why enterprise consumers in particular are so tempted to migrate to the cloud as well as the barriers that often prevent them taking the leap

The third post in this series looks at some of the pros and cons of dedicated and cloud hosting solutions when it comes to providing the services that enterprise customers actually demand.

Interoute call it Unified ICT: creating and managing all Enterprise ICT infrastructure as a service, delivered from a secure networking platform and integrated for optimal cost, performance and efficiency.

The following lens looks at the merits of two hosting options that are worth considering for clients or individuals who do not want to rent server/hosting resource from a hosting provider and instead invest in their own equipment.