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BigRock is an Indian web hosting provider that is part of the Endurance International Group (EIG), which also includes Bluehost, Hostgator, and a number of other hosting providers. They’re ICANN-accredited, and claim to offer prices up to 80% less than other domain registrars, as their focus is mostly on individuals and small businesses. According to their website, they currently power over 6 million domains. 

BigRock also has what they call a globally distributed data center, which is a collection of redundant server infrastructure hosting all their products and services. They don’t give any locations of their data centers on their website, however, only claiming that they are made up “of a complex mesh of global servers that interact with each…

Brixly is a relatively new web hosting provider, founded in 2014 by Dennis and Francesca Nind, a married couple, and focusing primarily on reseller hosting. Just six years after its inception, the provider is already managing more than 275,000 websites and blogs, making it one of the fastest-growing hosting platforms designed for the reseller market in the UK. They also offer web hosting, and their migration centre makes switching to them from another provider much easier than usual, but also faster, taking hours instead of days.

Brixly has a London-based data centre network, made up of what they claim are the highest quality Tier 1 providers, in order to ensure that they’re always online, plus a Chicago-based one. They promise 99.9% uptime, guaranteeing money back in the event that…

Doteasy is a Canada-based web hosting provider that was founded in 2000, aiming to offer “quality, affordable, banner-free, domain-based web hosting solutions,” according to their website. They also claim that their robust security means they have never been compromised in their entire history, which they say is partly owed to the fact that they have never outsourced their technicians or support team. They currently serve over half a million customers. 

The provider has a Cisco-powered data center based in Vancouver, Canada. They don’t make any direct claims for uptime, but they do state that they do not rely on the local power grid, instead using diesel-powered generators and centralized Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) to keep everything online at all times. This means that…

Put simply, a hosted application is any piece of software that is running on someone else’s infrastructure rather than on-premise. Such hosted applications are accessed over the Internet and provide a web-based user interface for users to interact with them. Hosted applications are usually offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). 

In other words, application hosting allows you to run your applications on servers or in a cloud that is hosted by a service provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that provide the necessary foundations to host your apps.

An example of a hosted application that everyone can identify with is WordPress. If you wanted to blog, the traditional method would be to download WordPress, spend time installing and configuring it…