Website Cloud Services – Business Proposal Competitive Analysis

Website Cloud Services – Business Proposal
Your Name
November 30, 2018
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Executive Summary
This document would provide a list and a detailed analysis of the different Website Cloud Services that would help achieve the goals outlined in the previous proposal. Specifically, the top three (3) Web solutions that are chosen from the multitude existing in the market would be presented. This would ensure that your company could see the advantages and disadvantages of each one, and choose based on those. Some of the details that would be outlined in the succeeding sections of this proposal includes the technical aspect, pricing, maintenance, and support, among others. Nonetheless, our company would also suggest what we believe is the best service, that would ensure optimal results in line with your goals. We ensure you that the suggestion provided by the end of the article is based on years of experience and knowledge of our institution in choosing the best solution for the very specific needs of our clients. We hope that you could review our proposal, and we are looking forward to working with you.
Introduction
In line with the goals presented in the previous proposal, it is our pleasure to provide you with the bests Website Hosting Services available in the market. Through our analysis of your needs, he top three (3) services that are optimal for your specific needs are; (1) Amazon Web Services, (2) BlueHost, (3) and GoDaddy. In choosing these we factored-in three critical components which are (1) Reliability, (2) Price, and (3) Security/support. Being an established Law Firm that is seeking for growth, these components are important in order to streamline your workflow, cater and keep track of more clients, allocated budget for other parts of the operation, and mitigate systematic risks, among others. These three services would be further elaborated in the succeeding sections of this article.
Competitive Analysis
As stated earlier, the competitive analysis for the companies presented would be made based on three (3) critical factors. Since each of these services have their own strengths compared to the others, a table that would make this distinction much easier would be provided.
Reliability
Since the company is in its early stages of its expansion in using Web Services, it is utmost importance that both is frontend (i.e., website) and backend (i.e., database) is reliable. An unreliable system that experiences a lot of glitches and downtimes would most likely affect the perception of its clients. In measuring reliability, several factors could beA considered such as downtime/uptime percentage and availability of “site backups” CITATION Joh18 \l 1033 (Johnson, 2018).

Downtime/Uptime Ratio

Availability of Site Backups

Amazon Web Services

99.95%

Scheduled backups

BlueHost

99.9%

Automatic, but not guaranteed

GoDaddy

99.99%

Scheduled Backups

Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services has been in the industry ever since 2002, it is backed up by a billion-dollar company, and has infrastructures that ensures efficient data transfer, security, and storage. AWS is mainly built for developers, which makes it a very efficient and versatile tool especially for companies that have an experienced personnel (or team) that could tailor it to the needs of the company. In terms of its uptime/downtime statistics, AWS provides a “service health dashboard” that would allow its users to monitor the number of times when the servers are down CITATION Bar08 \l 1033 (Barr, 2008). Its reports also show that Uptime Scores of AWS is about 99.95%, which is almost perfect. Additionally, AWS provides ‘scheduled backups’ through a virtual cloud storage, which is important for keeping data obtained you clients without having to manually save everything from time to time.
BlueHost
BlueHost is another Cloud Hosting Service, which was created back in 2003, by the international company, Endurance International Group. As compared to AWS, this service is targeted even for developers which have little experience as it offers a wider variety of tools for every Web Hosting activities. Another reason why this service is versatile is because it caters for a lot of programming languages such as “PHP, Perl 5, JavaScript, and Flash”. However, when compared to AWS, the possibilities of expansion and additional features would seem to be more limited.
BlueHost also features automatic backup services, high uptime scores (99.9%), and huge storage spaces for both the main website and the backup storage systems. However, their website itself says that while automatic backup features are available, this is not guaranteed. Manual backups in offline storage systems and periodic backups using their cPanel is recommended CITATION Blund \l 1033 (Bluehost.com, n.d.).
GoDaddy
GoDaddy is one of the oldest Web Hosting Services in the market. It was founded in 1997 and have around 17 million customers all over the world. However, GoDaddy is one of the most straightforward hosting services available, since it is mostly targeting beginner to average website builders. This means that even a single personnel managing the website could have good results through GoDaddy’s features. GoDaddy also has automated and cloud-based backups, which also makes it a good choice in terms of overall reliability. However, while some businesses would go for this Web Hosting for developing a business website, a rapidly expanding business might go well with those which prioritizes expandability and versatility rather than interface.
Summary
In terms of reliability, it could be seen that a...