{"id":5465,"date":"2013-01-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/21\/charity-uses-cloud-computing-to-protect-from-visitor-surges\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:30:00","slug":"charity-uses-cloud-computing-to-protect-from-visitor-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/charity-uses-cloud-computing-to-protect-from-visitor-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity uses cloud computing to protect from visitor surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Action for Children, one of Britain&rsquo;s foremost charities has used a <strong>cloud hosting<\/strong> provider to create a hybrid cloud with which to support its website as well as applications, especially during peak surges in visitor numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Action for Children&rsquo;s Data Scientist, Darren Robertson explained how their data cloud arrangement worked. <\/p>\n<p>Less sensitive data is kept with the cloud provider, whilst sensitive information (accounting for around 60% of total data) is kept separately on hard drives at the Action for Children HQ. The provider&rsquo;s public cloud is used to host the website itself. This hybrid cloud arrangement also means that migrating the website is made much easier, should the need arise.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson said that before using the cloud arrangement, hosting was done with their &ldquo;web development agency, which was a shared environment of other charities.&rdquo; This was problematic as it was expensive to change to a different agency &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action for Children, one of Britain&rsquo;s foremost charities has used a cloud hosting provider to create a hybrid cloud with which to support its website as well as applications, especially during peak surges in visitor numbers.<br \/>\nAction for Children&amp;r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}