A load balancer is not a WAF, nor is it a CDN, but it works well with both! A load balancer is a device that sits between your website and the outside world and distributes load across one or more compute nodes.
Data needs to be in at least three places and across two responsible parties to make sure it is safe.
Decibite Cloud Hosting allows for Visa and MasterCard credit cards to be used for New and Renewal payments. We also allow for PayPal as a payment vendor. This is where we accept American Express.
We are helping customers get faster websites in Australia, USA, Canada, France, and the Netherlands. Some of these same customers are delightfully surprised to find our servers are all based in Montreal.
With a virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated server, you have services that require maintenance. Updates, security checks, backups, performance reviews, reboots, etc.