November 2023 Summaries

Enterprise hosting is a managed service designed to provide large-scale organizations with robust online infrastructure, including management, security, and scalability, to ensure business continuity in a digital-first environment. It differs from regular hosting by offering greater server resources and more comprehensive management for complex needs. Enterprise hosting is crucial for businesses with high traffic, resource-intensive applications, and strict compliance requirements, ensuring high reliability and guaranteed uptime. Key features of enterprise hosting include multi-framework support, scalability, real-time monitoring, robust security measures, compliance with industry standards, and service-level agreements with guaranteed uptime. Upsun is an example of a unified, polyglot, multi-cloud enterprise hosting platform, offering features like Git-driven deployments, instant preview environments, and usage-based pricing to enhance development workflows and adaptability across various frameworks.

HMP Global, a global events and publishing company in the healthcare industry, transitioned to using Upsun's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to improve the management of over 150 globally distributed websites, particularly for their virtual and hybrid events. By implementing Upsun, they enhanced their development processes with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), quality assurance (QA), and user acceptance testing (UAT), leading to a 200% improvement in application stability and an increase in uptime from 99.95% to 99.99%. The collaboration with Lando, an open-source platform for managing local development environments, allowed HMP Global to streamline their workflows by enabling developers to create local environments that perfectly replicate production sites, thus reducing the time spent on onboarding and troubleshooting. The shift to Upsun also facilitated the creation of testing branches for each change, enhancing the quality and stability of their websites. As a result, the development team now experiences fewer outages and can focus more on delivering reliable performance, with all downtime being related to planned deployments.