Rivell helps New Jersey businesses host, secure, back up, and support business applications that need reliable access without keeping everything tied to aging on-premises servers.
Application hosting is a good fit when a line-of-business application needs stable performance, remote access, predictable support, and a recovery plan. Rivell helps define the hosting environment, user access, backup expectations, vendor requirements, and support responsibilities before anything moves.
Application Hosting Services
- Hosted business applications and hosted servers
- Application server planning and migration support
- Database hosting support where appropriate
- Secure remote access planning for staff and approved users
- User access controls and permission cleanup
- Backup and restore planning for hosted applications
- Performance review and troubleshooting
- Security configuration and ongoing IT support
- Vendor coordination for supported business applications
When Application Hosting Makes Sense
Application hosting can help when your current server is aging, remote access is unreliable, backups are unclear, or a software vendor requires a more stable environment. It can also help businesses centralize access for multiple offices, remote employees, and field teams.
What Rivell Reviews Before Hosting an Application
- Which application needs to be hosted and how critical it is
- Who needs access, from where, and on what devices
- Vendor hosting, licensing, and support requirements
- Backup frequency, retention, and restore expectations
- Security requirements, access controls, and user permissions
- Performance expectations and acceptable downtime
- How the application connects to printers, scanners, file shares, databases, or other systems
Application Hosting Planning: Fit, Migration, and Support
A hosting decision should connect the application, vendor requirements, users, technical dependencies, security, recovery objectives, migration plan, and support model. The right design depends on the workload and does not guarantee uninterrupted availability or compatibility.
Application and vendor fit
Review line-of-business, accounting, ERP, practice-management, database-backed, vendor-supported legacy, and custom internal applications individually. Confirm supported operating systems, database versions, licensing, warranties, and vendor support boundaries.
Architecture, capacity, and dependencies
Document compute, memory, storage capacity and performance, user concurrency, latency, database needs, printers, scanners, file shares, integrations, certificates, internet dependencies, and any local hardware that must remain connected.
Identity, security, and maintenance
Define individual accounts, SSO and MFA where supported, least-privilege roles, administrator separation, encryption, firewall policy, endpoint protection, logging, patching, maintenance windows, and responsibility for application and operating-system updates.
Backup and disaster recovery
Set recovery point and recovery time objectives, retention, protected-copy requirements, restore-test frequency, application-consistent backup needs, dependency recovery order, vendor procedures, and decision owners for a recovery event.
Pilot, migration, and cutover
Inventory data and users, build the target environment, test a pilot where practical, validate permissions and integrations, run user acceptance tests, plan data synchronization and cutover, and document rollback or temporary-access options.
Monitoring and support ownership
Assign monitoring, capacity, backup, patching, certificates, licensing, vendor escalation, incident response, user support, change requests, documentation, and after-hours coverage according to the selected service agreement.
Related planning: cloud hosting, data backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, network design, and managed IT services.
Evaluating an application move or aging server? Schedule an application hosting readiness assessment.
Related New Jersey IT Services
Application hosting often connects with cloud hosting, data backup services, disaster recovery planning, cybersecurity, and Microsoft 365 support.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Rivell host legacy business applications?
Rivell can review legacy business applications and determine whether hosting is practical based on software requirements, vendor support, licensing, database needs, and user access.
Is application hosting the same as cloud hosting?
Application hosting is a specific use case within cloud or hosted infrastructure. Cloud hosting focuses on the environment. Application hosting focuses on keeping a specific business application accessible, supported, backed up, and secure.
Can hosted applications be backed up?
Yes. Backup requirements should be defined before the application is moved, including retention, restore testing, and recovery expectations.
Need a business application hosted or moved off an old server?
Decision FAQs
Use these questions before the first sales call to review fit, risk, support ownership, and next steps.
What applications are a good fit for hosted infrastructure?
Good candidates are business-critical applications that need reliable access, controlled permissions, backup planning, remote availability, vendor coordination, and support beyond a single office server.
What should be planned before moving an application to hosted infrastructure?
Review users, permissions, data location, integrations, licensing, vendor requirements, performance, backup, security, remote access, and the support workflow for outages or updates.
Can Rivell help migrate and support hosted applications?
Yes. Rivell can help plan the hosting environment, coordinate vendors, migrate access, align backups, support users, and document the operating model after the application is live.
Need a practical review? Schedule an assessment with Rivell.
Third-party proof buyers can verify
Application hosting needs proof around cloud hosting, back-end maintenance, backup planning, cybersecurity, and support ownership.
- BBB:
BBB lists Rivell LLC as BBB Accredited with an A+ rating and identifies service categories including managed IT, VoIP, cloud hosting, cybersecurity, video surveillance, networking, data backup, access control, IT consulting, and telecommunications.
Verify source. - Inc. 5000:
Inc. lists Rivell as an Inc. 5000 honoree in 2026, 2025, and 2024, with IT Services as the industry and Sewell, New Jersey as the location.
Verify source. - TIPS vendor profile:
The TIPS public vendor profile lists Rivell LLC with contract categories for audio visual equipment and services, telephone and communications data systems, networking equipment and services, consulting, and technology solutions.
Verify source.
These are public proof sources, not paid review claims or self-serving review markup. Rivell does not use fake review counts, fake ratings, or unsupported review-rating markup.
