Hosting environment

Term in telecommunication and Internet businesses

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Hosting environment is a term used in telecommunication and Internet businesses. Hosting is a relatively new form of business between a vendor and a telecom operator.[1] [2]

## About[edit]

The vendor normally sells equipment and services to a telecom operator. The equipment and services sold are used to provide a consumer service, like picture mail or download of ringback tones.

Due to the changing telecommunications business and a burst of a very large number of new consumer services, new business models are being created. The common two are revenue share and managed service hosting. This is where the term Hosting Environment comes from.

The hosting environment is the physical environment where hosting services are offered from. Typically hosting environment in telecommunication terms would be a Network Operating Centre (NOC) housing the equipment needed to host a service.

In simple words, the Hosting Environment mainly consists of two terms. First, the physical environment where the servers are located. Secondly, it also refers to the environment that you get with your hosting plan like shared, virtual private or dedicated. For example, a virtual private environment provides you with a totally isolated environment on the same server.

This can be broken down to include all hardware, including servers, routers and their cabinets. In most cases, the equipment would be rack-mounted and connected through one or more LANs. In order to provide security and allow multiple operators to use the same infrastructure, firewalls and sub-LANs may be used. The hosting environment would also include support systems like billing, and provisioning systems as well as Operation and maintenance system.

Further, A hosting environment refers to the infrastructure and resources where an application or website is deployed and made accessible to users over the internet. It's the place where all the necessary files, Database, and configurations are stored and executed, allowing the application to run and be accessible to visitors or users.

The quality of the hosting environment would depend on the level of redundancy and high-available configurations. In best of environments, perhaps a remote site is configured in case of disaster. In a simpler environment, one may not even have mirrored disks. The same goes for O&M equipment and alarm handling. Companies offering telecom grade hosting environment will certainly provide more than 99.99% availability, redundant LANs and a robust SAN (Storage Area Network).[citation needed]

## See also[edit]

* Dedicated hosting service
* Shared web hosting service

## References[edit]

1. ^ June 2020, Desire Athow 04. "Best web hosting services for your website in 2020". TechRadar. Retrieved 2020-06-10.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
2. ^ Dec 2020, Bryan (5 December 2020). "Best cheap cloud hosting services". BloggingSilo.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

## External links[edit]

* Hosting environment at TheFreeDictionary.com

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