Large corporations require large servers. In big banks and pharmaceutical firms, servers are required to host data in the interests of the law and compliance if nothing else. An investment firm may need to know how a client got away with laundering money so that they are not liable; checks may have to be made on the customer’s banking history, and if the investment firm doesn’t have the information, it may be in trouble with the authorities. A piece of machinery may break down in a pharmaceutical plant: The engineers working on the repair may want to check all of the maintenance that has been carried out on that device over the last few years, to see what went wrong and to make sure costly drug production isn’t held up for this reason ever again.

However, whether you’re part of a large corporation or a budding entrepreneur about to launch his first website, you should consider hosting your development services externally, at a remote location. Outsourcing of this kind has many benefits, not least cost. The cost to maintain servers on a site is expensive. The large amounts of data they contain and the memory required to run software may change during the day and night. Say you have ten thousand visitors one day on your site and using your site’s services; the next day is a Saturday and you only have five hundred visitors. Servers may be running at peak capacity one day and the next they’re hardly used at all. A remote web development host to whom your company’s or site’s virtual services can be tendered will maintain servers as a matter of course, and devote whatever resources are required to their use. This is a greener and cleaner method of maintaining your website as you have no need for servers, and the virtualization hosting will look no different to the bank employee or chemist (to carry on these examples) whose job it is to use the front end services.