5 reasons to choose Umbraco Cloud
Choosing the right hosting platform is an important part of a website's long-term success. With Umbraco Cloud, Umbraco offers a modern cloud platform that combines high availability, security and smart features for both developers and editors. This results in you saving time in both development and daily work and getting a stable and easy-to-administer solution. Here are five reasons why we at Webmind recommend Umbraco Cloud for our customers.
1. Automatic Version Updates
With Umbraco Cloud, you avoid manual upgrades within the minor version your Umbraco website uses. The platform manages these updates continuously, which means that the website is continuously kept up to date with the latest features and security measures. In addition to saving costs for manual upgrades, you also ensure that your website always has the latest protection against potential threats.
2. High availability thanks to modern infrastructure
Umbraco Cloud is built on Microsoft Azure and offers a stable and scalable. If traffic increases or your website grows over time, there is the possibility to adapt the hosting level to your needs. For larger solutions, there is also support for Load balancing, which means that traffic can be distributed between multiple instances of the website. This allows the website to handle higher loads while reducing the risk of downtime if an instance needs to be restarted or temporarily becomes unavailable.
3. Easier development with multiple environments
When new features or changes are to be developed, it is of course important that they can be tested properly before they reach the live website. With Umbraco Cloud, development, testing and publishing take place in separate environments, which reduces the risk of errors and creates a safer development process. With Umbraco Cloud's built-in deploy flows and Git integration, it becomes easier to work in a structured way and move changes between the different environments. We use this setup for basically all of our Umbraco projects, which means that both we and the customer can feel confident that changes are tested before they are published.
4. Extra security with built-in backups
If something goes wrong during a publication, development or other change, there is extra security in knowing that the website can be restored. Umbraco Cloud takes regular backups of both the database and website, making it possible to quickly revert to a previous version if necessary. This reduces the risk of extended downtime and allows you to quickly restore your website if something unexpected happens.
5. Support from the team behind Umbraco
With Umbraco Cloud, you get access to Umbraco's own support, which provides extra security if something unexpected should occur. As an Umbraco partner, we at Webmind can work directly with Umbraco's support and development team to quickly troubleshoot and resolve any problems. The direct contact means that we can move forward faster in complex cases, which saves time and helps solutions to be developed more efficiently.
... now even more flexible packages
As a small bubbly, we would also like to highlight that Umbraco Cloud now offers more flexible hosting packages, which makes it easier to adapt the solution to your specific needs. This means that you can choose the resources you need and only pay for what you actually use. Previously, the hosting plans were structured so that if you needed more storage space for the media library, for example, you needed to upgrade the entire hosting plan even if you did not need more CPU or other resources. With the new model, you can instead adapt the plan and resources more individually. This provides a more cost-effective solution and makes it easier to let your hosting grow with your website's needs.
Curious about whether Umbraco Cloud would be right for you? Please contact us. We'd be happy to tell you more and discuss how Umbraco Cloud could suit your website and needs.