Moving Apps to the Cloud

Here are some common questions customers have about moving their applications to our cloud computing infrastructure:

Q: We can’t afford to downtime OR to lose the use of our business apps by moving them to the cloud.
A: Migrating your business apps to the cloud does not need any code re-writes, making it a fairly seamless transition.  We can help with migration and schedule moves outside normal business hours.

Q: We want to keep complete control of our critical business data and apps in our  environment.
A: As your apps get older, your costs and time for managing, supporting, and training continue to increase. In addition, you run into more compatibility issues that can limit your flexibility. Accessing the app through via remote hosted desktop on a cloud server keeps you in control but solves these issues.  It also reduces down costs and eliminates downtime for server and networking upgrades.

Q: I have concerns about losing control of our confidential company data.
A: Currently, your confidential company data resides on individual PCs, laptops, and other devices. Shifting the delivery of your apps to a hosted virtual desktop model maintains all of your data in a central location.  Confidential company data and files no longer reside on individual PCs and devices, giving you control in case of loss or theft.  Employees simply log into one place to access everything.  We offer a secure virtual private network (VPN) connection that you can use on just about any device on any Internet connection.

Contact us for more info or to get started today!

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Web + Email Hosting as a Service (WHaaS)

CeraNet provides economical web & email hosting as a service (WHaaS) — this is something that has been around for a long time.  The big difference between our service and others is that we actually use a cloud infrastructure behind the control panel.  This enables you to have complete control over everything from databases, backup and restore, application setup and config (including our gallery that offers over 50 state of the art apps like WordPress (this site runs on this setup), Joomla, etc.)

Our hosting platform also supports WebMatrix app gallery components that are:  optimized for open source applications,  support for top languages such as PHP & .NET, specifically built for the cloud hosting services, and support design and development for both traditional site developement and mobile platforms.

Here are some FAQ’s:

Do you offer integrated solutions for building and managing websites?

– Our hosted website solution provides you with a broad choice in how you build and manage your websites. The solution supports many frameworks including ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP and Node.js and you can easily deploy many of the most popular web apps with the click of a mouse using the included application gallery. It also allows you to develop on Windows, Mac, or Linux and publish using the tools of your choice – Visual Studio, Git, FTP, etc.

Do you offer services to easily extend and optimize your websites for mobile devices and tablets?
– CeraNet WHaaS offers a variety of applications and templates that work well on mobile devices and on the desktop. They are built using best practices for jQuery Mobile, HTML5 and CSS3.

Do you offer tools to optimize your websites for search engines?
– We provide built-in tool and applications that assist you with search engine optimization (SEO) + help analyze content and keywords.

We want to be able to develop and deploy websites without having to buy/build the server infrastructure (in-house or on a dedicated server from another provider)?  Can you help?
– Running a server (either in-house or with a dedicated server) can be costly to support and upgrade as your needs increase. By utilizing our web hosting as a service (WHaaS) solution, you only pay for the resources you need, when you need them helping save you money.

Can we remotely manage and update websites?
– CeraNet offers an easy to use control panel where you can tune for performance, change permissions and application settings, setup and configure DNS for unlimited domain names, backup and restore your hosting space, or update code as necessary, all in one place.

Email us at sales@cera.net for more info or to get started.

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Virtual Desktop

According to 451 Research, in 2009 over $1.6 billion dollars were spent on virtual desktop services with that number expected to grow to over $6 billion by 2015.  Tablets such as Apple’s IPAD and Google Nexus are used to get access to centralized applications like Microsoft Office.  This allows users to save data in a centralized location, share documents and work products easily, and most importantly allows corporate leaders to have control and access to information.

CeraNet has many clients that use Remote Desktop to use applications like Word, Excel, Quickbooks, and other custom software to run their business.  This allows them to run the same software in different locations (mobile too!) and save their data on a server that is always available, secure, constantly backed up, and flexible to meet their ever-changing needs.

Contact us at sales@cera.net to find out how we can help you.

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Database as a Service

Did you know CeraNet offers SQL Server and MYSQL databases as a service?

Like most businesses, I am sure you are looking for a way to cut costs?  Using a provider that offers database as a service (DaaS) can help you cut costs by allowing you to use our resources to host your database.  You don’t need to pay for expensive software licenses (that you will need to upgrade in a year or less), costly servers (that are worth less than 1/2 what you paid for them in 9 months), and you can use our resources to set up and configure everything (instead of hiring high cost technicians, DBA’s, networking specialists, and support people).

You can use our service to create short-term development and testing platforms, high availability clustered solutions, or low-cost flexible production environments that you can expand as you need.   We also provide state of the art infrastructure & security you can count on.

Contact us today at sales@cera.net to see how we can help you.

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Dynamic Data Center Solution

CeraNet offers the complete dynamic data center solution with everything from base hosted web + email service, cloud servers, custom hardware based firewall & VPN solutions for regulatory compliance, to traditional dedicated & colo equipment hosting.    Our big selling point is that we are one of a small select group of professional data centers that offers the ability to combine physical, virtual, and real world business solutions into one easy to use service.  We also offer managed hosting solutions at a fraction of the cost of the big box providers for everything from simple networking issues to complex data driven solutions for call center VOIP services.  Our engineers have considerable experience with application development services.  CeraNet even offers DBA management services with real world experienced administrators.

We recently spend considerable time designing a custom dynamic data center for a client offers 12 cloud servers for web apps, database servers, CRM services, load balancing, all secured with a custom managed hardware firewall & secure virtual private networking service.  The cloud servers with all connected with private network + protected public access using the VPN service.  This allows them to seamlessly transfer data from server to server without the cost, security concerns, and overhead of going out to the public Internet.

Email us to find out how we can help you!  sales@cera.net

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