In order to start an online sportsbook, you need a hosting service designed for online gambling. While running your online sportsbook, there will be times when you website is bombarded with huge amounts of traffic caused by a high number of simultaneous users online. If you choose a regular hosting service, your website might go down due to hardware failure. This type of situation is extremely bad for your business and adds a bad reputation to your website.
Operators have the option of selecting a different hosting service than the one provided by our company or run their own set of private servers. However, we believe that using traditional servers to host your online gambling operations is an expensive option and is predispose to hardware errors.
Our hosting solution is based entirely on cloud technology in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. We consider this type of cloud hosting service to be the most reliable, scalable and affordable solution for operating an online sportsbook. With this type of hosting service your costs are calculated according to traffic.
The main advantages for using a hosting service based on cloud technology are:
- Scalability – Instead of regular servers, cloud technology uses “instances” which are bits of data stored into military grade servers. Those “instances” scale up during periods with high amounts of traffic and scale down when there isn’t much activity on your sportsbook website.
- Low cost solution – Since you don’t have to invest in the infrastructure.
- Geo-localized – The data centers that contain the military grade servers are located on 4 different continents: Asia, Europe, South and North America. The server closest to the user is the one being activated resulting in a fast service.