A Dutch association of hosting providers comes with a label that a certain level of quality to guarantee. Thus, major infrastructure redundant are performed and there must be 24 hour per day support.
The Dutch Hosting Provider Association is working on a certification for hosting providers, reports Computable. Hosting providers can use this label as the code of conduct of the organization subscribe to. They will also need to include business-critical parts of the network will double-run, so that failure is always spare capacity available. Also must have a high uptime can be guaranteed and need servers to be very secure.
The label should make clear that there is 24 hour support for customers. It also wants the DHPA that as a participant, its activities temporarily or permanently cease, any other party, the customers takes over. To the service problems quickly with another company, would participants encrypted copies of their servers when their competitors have stables.
The society hopes the seal of approval in the third quarter of this year to introduce. At this moment, there are only 21 of the numerous hosting companies is a member of the DHPA. Below, there are, however, large players, such as Getronics, Bit, Argeweb and Leaseweb.