The attributes behind your decision
- Facility
- Power, cooling, physical access
- Network
- Routing, port capacity, transfer
- Compute
- VPS, dedicated, customer hardware
- Operations
- Monitoring and recovery procedures
Evaluate the facility and network separately
Power, cooling, and physical access support the equipment. Connectivity, routing, port rates, and transfer allowances govern network delivery. Request evidence for any specific redundancy or certification requirement instead of inferring it from the country name.
Choose the right infrastructure layer
Use virtual servers when assigned resources and flexible administration fit the workload. Use dedicated hardware for machine-level isolation. Use colocation when you own the equipment. VPN is a connectivity service rather than an application server.
Turn availability requirements into operating procedures
Write down monitoring thresholds, backup schedules, incident contacts, and restore steps. Redundant infrastructure does not remove the need to plan for application failure or accidental deletion. Confirm support scope in the written service description.