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Cloud and infrastructureOctober 13, 2026 · 19 min read
30 tips for choosing hosting and a CDN for a fast, reliable website
Your website needs to handle everyday visits, campaign traffic and recovery after a failure. Use these 30 practical tips and provider comparisons to choose hosting and a CDN for a business site, WordPress, an online shop or a web application.Read article →AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure: How to choose a platform
Your developer recommends AWS, your administrator prefers Azure and your analyst already uses Google Cloud. Each may have a sound reason. The business needs to know where its application will meet requirements and who can operate it. Start with shared requirements, comparable costs and a small pilot.Blue-green and canary deployments: make releases safer
A release can start successfully and still break the customer’s checkout. Blue-green and canary deployments reduce particular release risks by controlling where the new version runs and how traffic reaches it. They need reliable checks, compatible data changes and a rehearsed recovery plan before anyone can promise a smooth rollout.Multi-tenant architecture: serving many companies safely
A SaaS product can serve many companies from a common platform, but sharing infrastructure creates decisions that a second login screen will not solve. Define the tenant boundary, enforce it across every data path and decide which resources may be shared. Capacity, recovery and customer requirements then guide the architecture.Backups that restore: put the 3-2-1 rule into practice
An order portal loses its database, and the backup dashboard shows a successful job. The real recovery question is whether the team can find an appropriate copy, open it, restore the attachments and run the application safely. A completed backup is a useful starting point. Recovery is the result the business needs.Cloud secrets and configuration: control the whole lifecycle
An application works because someone copied a production API key into a deployment setting months ago. Nobody knows which services use it or what will break when it changes. A secret manager improves storage, but reliable operation also requires clear access, ownership and a tested path from creation to revocation.Logging and observability: connect metrics, logs and traces
The service is running, but customers cannot finish a checkout. CPU graphs look normal, logs contain thousands of messages and nobody can follow the failed request across systems. Observability becomes useful when those signals help the team answer what is affected, where work failed and what to do next.Cloud networks and VPNs: connect your business without opening everything
The VPN tunnel is connected, but employees still cannot open the internal application. The cause may be routing, DNS, a firewall, an identity policy, or the application itself. A working business connection depends on the complete path, not the green status beside one gateway.Cloud security: seven decisions your business still owns
Your application runs on a major cloud platform, the dashboard looks healthy, and the provider has an impressive security program. Yet a former contractor may still have access, nobody has restored the database, and an important file operation may never reach your audit log. Cloud security depends on decisions your business still needs to make.Cloud migration without downtime: how to move your data and apps without customers noticing
You can move your company’s data and applications to the cloud without downtime if you get three things right: copy the data continuously while the old system keeps running, shift traffic in stages, and keep a tested way back the entire time. Flip everything over on a Friday night and hope for the best, and you may spend Monday morning explaining to customers why nothing works.Share this page
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