Although it is impossible to completely prevent outages, a small business can protect itself from unneeded downtime and restore service promptly with appropriate planning and cautious selection of technology and hosting companies in UAE
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The importance of online operations to income determines if your organisation requires costly infrastructure to prevent an outage. Do you realise how much an hour or more of downtime could cost your company in missed sales or client churn? Do the analysis if you haven't already.

Industry experts recommends that your organisation request a "static page" service from your Web hosting company in UAE
at the very least. Instead of the generic error page, the service displays a personalised, branded message to visitors who arrive at your page when it is down.

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If your site is primarily utilised for lead generation, a few hours or even a day of downtime is unlikely to be disastrous. However, if your site is used for business activities, a few hours of downtime could cost you thousands of dollars in lost income or clients, not to mention the time and money it takes to restore the site. Here are some effective preventative strategies:

1. Make backups. A basic requirement is to backup all systems that your website accesses on a regular (daily) basis. However, some of your site's data will be stored on the hosting provider's servers. "They'll all say they back up the site," says Peter Connolly, CEO of Web design and consulting firm KP Direction. "But you need to test them."

Upload a file to your site, then erase it after a few minutes. Request that the hosting business obtain it on your behalf. According to Connolly, this should take no more than 30 minutes. If not, that's a warning sign. Regardless of what the hosting business does, experts recommend backing up your complete website on your own. According to Steve Glass, a San Diego-based Web developer, you can use free software like FileZilla to copy all of the data and files from the website control panel to your own internal systems.

2. Hosting alternatives. There can be no such entity is 100 percent or even close to 100 percent uptime, so choose a reliable service. If a company is difficult to work with, don't use them. "Having a responsive hosting business that listens to you and is willing to work with you to get the amount of service you need and can afford is preferable," Connolly adds.

Then, think about the amount of service that your company demands. When you use shared hosting, your website is housed on the same machine as hundreds, if not thousands, of other websites. According to Connolly, you can't utilise shared hosting if your site holds client data or handles orders since the security requirements aren't robust enough. You'll need a virtual private server, or VPS, at that level, which is a dedicated private server that is safely partitioned on a single physical server utilising virtualization technology. To begin, he estimates that it will cost roughly $25 or $30 each month.

A Dedicated Server Hosting Dubai, which is required for high-volume sites receiving 1 million or more daily hits, is at the far end of the hosting spectrum. A dedicated server might cost up to $300 per month to rent.

The possibilities don't stop there: do you require dual hosting, which entails working with two ISPs or hosting companies? If you truly need 100 percent availability, you cannot — no matter what anyone tells you — single-source the hosting of your website on a single provider. Going with a multi-vendor solution isn't a simple undertaking, but gives you much better resilience against single point of failure.

3. Logging and monitoring. Again, for revenue-generating sites, entrusting everything to Web hosting firms isn't a good idea. As previously said, creating your own backups allows you to maintain some control. Maintain a manual journal of what modifications are made to the site, who made them, and when they were done, according to Glass. This can help speed up the restoration of your site in the event of an outage. Connolly also recommends using a website monitoring service, which will send you an email if your site is down in a specific place. Though there are many options, he recommends Hyperspin and Basic State.

4. Dealing an outage.  Don't get too worked up if your website goes down. To begin, contact your hosting business to learn more about what's going on, and check sites like this one to ensure the problem isn't solely yours. Notify clients as quickly as possible about the incident and when you expect the site to be operational again. During a long outage, offer clients with status updates on a regular basis. Because rapidly and thoroughly rebuilding your site can be a technical task, if you don't have technical expertise on staff, get to know a respected IT specialist that you can call in an emergency.