A private cloud has its own non-shared infrastructure, but also has all the advantages of a regular cloud. This includes high availability, fast SAN storage and high flexibility. You can read more about these advantages on our
public cloud page.
Extra advantages
A private cloud has many advantages over the public cloud. To name a few of them:
- - Full resources available
- - Full control through the cloud control panel
- - Extra security through hardware firewalls and appliances
- - Ability to comply with norms and standards (e.g. financial, medical)
- - Ability to make your own choices in terms of quality and costs
The initial investment with a private cloud is higher than the public cloud or a dedicated server solution. If you are expecting fast growth, need flexibility and security, it will be well worth the investment. A slow website or application will limit your growth, downtime due to the lack of high availability can even destroy your companies reputation.
