What is cloud hosting?

[jhonsmith123]

The term "Cloud" is used by every hosting provider. But really, what is Cloud Hosting? Generally, to be a "True Cloud" the following attributes must be found in the hosting architecture of the Cloud provider. If any of these aspects are missing, you will not benefit from all of the Cloud hosting advantages.

Rapid Elasticity - Our Create-A-Cloud tool allows you to adjust resources immediately to meet demand
Resource Pooling - Load Balancing features allow you to maximize resource usage and achieve High Availability
Tools & Automation - Customer Portal and Control Panels allow you to manage all aspects of your service
Self Healing - True Cloud platform automatically recovers from hardware failures
Resource Visibilty - Tools and full access control allows you to see your resource usage
On Demand Self Service - Your orders and any adjustments to your service are 100% automated, with no need to wait for eApps staff

[mani ge3e]

provide hosting for websites on virtual servers which pull their computing resource from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers. It follows the utility model of computing in that it is available as a service rather than a product and is therefore comparable with traditional utilities such as electricity and gas. Broadly speaking the client can tap into their service as much as they need, depending on the demands of their website, and they will only pay for what they use.

It exists as an alternative to hosting websites on single servers (either dedicated or shared servers) and can be considered as an extension of the concept of clustered hosting where websites are hosted on multiple servers. With cloud hosting however, the network of servers that are used is vast and often pulled from different data centres in different locations.

Practical examples of cloud hosting can fall under both the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) classifications. Under IaaS offerings the client is simply provided with the virtualised hardware resource on which they can install their own choice of software environment before building their web application. On a PaaS service however, the client is also provided with this software environment, for example, as a solution stack (operating system, database support, web server software, and programming support), on which they can go straight to installing and developing their web application. Businesses with complex IT infrastructures and experienced IT professionals may wish to opt for the more customisable IaaS model but others may prefer the ease of a PaaS option.

A development of the concept of cloud hosting for enterprise customers is the Virtual Data Centre (VDC). This employs a virtualised network of servers in the cloud which can be used to host all of a business’s IT operations including its websites.

The more obvious examples of cloud hosting involve the use of public cloud models - that is hosting websites on virtual servers which pull resource from the same pool as other publicly available virtual servers and use the same public networks to transmit the data; data which is physically stored on the underlying shared servers which form the cloud resource. These public clouds will include some security measures to ensure that data is kept private and would suffice for most website installations. However, where security and privacy is more of a concern, businesses can turn towards cloud hosting in private clouds as an alternative - that is clouds which use ring-fenced resources (servers, networks etc), whether located on site or with the cloud provider.

A typical cloud hosting offering can deliver the following features and benefits:

Reliability; rather than being hosted on one single instance of a physical server the website is hosted on a virtual partition which draws its resources, such as disk space, from an extensive network of underlying physical servers. If one server goes offline, it dilutes the level of resource available to the cloud a little but will have no effect on the availability of the website whose virtual server will continue to pull resource from the remaining network of servers. Some cloud platforms could even survive an entire data centre going offline as the pooled cloud resource is drawn from multiple data centres in different locations to spread the risk.
Physical Security; the underlying physical servers are still housed within data centers and so benefit from the security measures that those facilities implement to prevent people accessing or disrupting them on-site
Scalability and Flexibility; resource is available in real time on demand and not limited to the physical constraints/capacity of one server. If a client’s site demands extra resource from its hosting platform due to a spike in visitor traffic or the implementation of new functionality, the resource is accessed seamlessly. Even when using a private cloud model the service can often be allowed to ‘burst’ to access resources from the public cloud for non-sensitive processing if there are surges in activity on the site.
Utility style costing; the client only pays for what they actually use. The resource is available for spikes in demand but there is no wasted capacity remaining unused when demand is lower.
Responsive load balancing; load balancing is software based and therefore can be instantly scalable to respond to changing demands

[alicemaris558]

Cloud hosting is a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources

[jerryperes]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system. Other hosting solutions (shared or dedicated) depend on one machine only, while cloud hosting security is guaranteed by many servers.

[johnseward]

Cloud hosting today is based on the most innovative hosting technologies available right now and allows your files stored and your websites to be hosted on unlimited number of machines that act as one system.

[RH-Calvin]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system. Other hosting solutions (shared or dedicated) depend on one machine only, while cloud hosting security is guaranteed by many servers.

[Rose kim]

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[Mark Thompson]

I think Cloud Hosting is not better than VPS.

[Acharya]

The term "Cloud" is used by every hosting provider. But really, what is Cloud Hosting? Generally, to be a "True Cloud" the following attributes must be found in the hosting architecture of the Cloud provider. If any of these aspects are missing, you will not benefit from all of the Cloud hosting advantages.

[marisalewis24]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system. Other hosting solutions (shared or dedicated) depend on one machine only, while cloud hosting security is guaranteed by many servers. The cloud technology allows easy integration of extra resources, such as space or RAM and thus enable website growth.

[seoexpert147]

Opting to take advantage of the cloud enables companies to access data from almost any location and saves both time and money. Due in part to recent scandals, including the 2013 NSA revelations by Edward Snowden as well as recent leaks involving Hollywood Stars, the image of cloud hosting has taken a bit of a hit as of late. Understandably, many users often wonder whether or not their data remains in safe hands. Despite all of this, few people truly understand what terms like ‘the cloud’, ‘cloud hosting’ or ‘cloud computing’ actually mean.

[ryansmith]

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[seoe]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system. Other hosting solutions (shared or dedicated) depend on one machine only, while cloud hosting security is guaranteed by many servers. The cloud technology allows easy integration of extra resources, such as space or RAM and thus enable website growth.

Cloud Hosting Benefits

Highest level of website performance guaranteed by multiple machines
Guaranteed server resources (CPU, RAM)
Redundant data storage
No single point of failure
Website growth flexibility
Lower pricing and generous features
Site Ground cloud hosting uses a highly advanced virtualization system which guarantees dedicated server resources for each website on the cloud. This means even smaller websites would benefit from dedicated server-like services at a very affordable price. Site Ground offers pre-defined cloud hosting packs, which are designed to accommodate any type of web project.

[alicewright]

I think Cloud Hosting is not better than VPS.

Hey I just want to know how cloud hosting is not better than vps?

[lavyhair]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system. Other hosting solutions (shared or dedicated) depend on one machine only, while cloud hosting security is guaranteed by many servers.

[christimathews]

Cloud Hosting is a type of hosting service wherein your website is being hosted and supported in a different server. You will have all login details but the hosted will have a back end credentials if in case any errors or rectifications is being needed.

[michanik]

There's only one problem - people are forgetting that the cloud host's network connection is shared by everyone on the cloud, and that network performance can be degraded, and cannot not be controlled. This creates another point of failure or bottleneck for the customers regardless of what type of hosting it is.

[seoexpert147]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system. Other hosting solutions (shared or dedicated) depend on one machine only, while cloud hosting security is guaranteed by many servers. The cloud technology allows easy integration of extra resources, such as space or RAM and thus enable website growth.

[Bluesky94]

Cloud hosting is a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources....

[rosestorm]

provide hosting for websites on virtual servers which pull their computing resource from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers. It follows the utility model of computing in that it is available as a service rather than a product and is therefore comparable with traditional utilities such as electricity and gas. Broadly speaking the client can tap into their service as much as they need, depending on the demands of their website, and they will only pay for what they use.

[michanik]

Cloud hosting is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow unlimited number of machines to act as one system

[saurabh mathur]

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[24x7servermanag]

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[baldwinjackson]

Basically Cloud hosting is sort of infrastructure which consist virtually space in any server according to the requirement and which can be increase or decrease anytime whereas dedicated server contain a specify amount of memory which can't be increase. Cloud hosting infrastructures contain multiple data center which means that your website/application is stored at multiple locations and speed up the loading process by hitting the nearest data center against any query.

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[manoharparakh]

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