Hosting is a type of internet service that allows individuals and businesses to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. A web hosting company provides space on a server and internet connectivity through data centers. Servers can be leased or bought by clients according to the type of website and online operations required.
As an operator, selecting the optimal hosting service for your online gambling operations is very extremely important. Your sportsbook website needs to be capable of sustaining high amounts of traffic without losing functionality or affecting the whole gambling experience by providing slow service.
After trying various technologies we have selected the best hosting solution suitable for online gambling operations. Our solution is based on cloud technology in collaboration with Amazon Web Services and we believe this is the optimal solution for hosting websites with high amounts of traffic requirements.
In order to fully understand why this type of hosting service is better than traditional hosting solutions let’s give an example. Using a regular hosting service, when the amount of traffic required starts to grow, your website sends a request to the hosting provider for additional servers to be deployed. The higher to number of simultaneous users on your website, the higher the number of servers needed to be activated. Since you can’t predict the exact time with maximum simultaneous users, you need to keep several servers activated at all times. This turns out to be a very expensive hosting solution especially for owners that decide to invest in their own private servers. In addition, traditional servers are not 100% reliable since once in a while servers might malfunction and crash jeopardizing you entire online gambling operation.
Main advantages for using our hosting service:
Scalability – As we said earlier, our hosting service is based on cloud technology. With this technology, instead of using traditional servers, we use “instances” which are bits of data stored into military grade servers capable of sustaining huge amounts of traffic. Instances scale up or down according to traffic requirements. When your website is very active, a number of instances are activated according to traffic requirements. This will ensure a smooth functionality even when there are thousands of simultaneous users online on your sportsbook. During times with low traffic requirements, instances deactivate to save resources.
Geo-localized – Data centers are facilities where servers are placed. Our military grade servers are placed in data centers located on 4 different continents: North America, South America, Europe and Asia. This allows us to provide an advanced geo-localized hosting service. When a user logs on your online sportsbook, he will be hosted on the closest server to his location. This action results in the fastest service possible.
Low cost hosting solution – With our hosting solution, the costs allocated for a hosting service are drastically lower since you basically pay according to how much traffic you use. Operators don’t need to worry with setting up and configuring servers since we have already taken care of it. However, we are flexible with operators looking to establish their own private servers and we can provide assistance with this solution as well.