What Is a Hosted Application?

Application hosting is where the developer does not provide a server for the application itself, and the application is hosted to ASP. That is, ASP cooperates with business application outsourcers to provide enterprises with end-to-end hosting (that is, providing hosts for application operation) services ^[1] . With the gradual expansion of the scope of application hosting, many enterprises not only host the server, but even host the entire application including development, maintenance, and operation.

With the advent of the information age and the popularity of the Internet, more and more companies have created the need to develop electronic businesses. For some fast-growing non-Internet companies, they do not want to set up a dedicated IT department for the company's operations. ^[1]

Application hosting enables online monitoring and maintenance of all device issues on the Internet that are integrated with hosted websites and application software. Application hosting can also acquire, configure, install, customize, and maintain the required

The need for an application hosting service depends on the type of application software on the Internet.

When you need a larger application software that can be accessed by your salespeople, distributors, partners, and senior management to get real-time status of resources and deliverability, it is suitable to use application hosting services. ^[2]

1. The degree of risk of using Internet applications as a source of income

2. Can application software work around the clock

3. Is the current internal resources (personnel and IT facilities) able to provide sufficient support required by the enterprise without weakening the company's attention to the business at hand?

4. Ability to withstand application software: Willingness to spend money on developing core business ^[2]

After the application hosting has evolved from pure server hosting to comprehensive IT service hosting, while focusing on improving their core competitiveness, enterprises hope that ASP can take care of the work of their e-commerce department at the same time. That is to say, the application hosting service provider not only provides technical support for IT, but also provides business support for the company. This will be the future development trend of application hosting.