Saturday, September 10, 2011

About Cloud Hosting

What is Cloud hosting?
Unlike traditional approach of single server hosting, a cloud-hosted website opearts on multiple connected servers; the website now has the access to multiple servers. Virtually, the processing power is unlimited as we can always add a new server which scale up the processing power.


Benefits of cloud hosting
It’s scalability and cost efficient is the commonly known advantages. Highly scalable technology (load balancing, hardware upgrades, etc), virtually no limitations on website expansion. 

NO hassle of migrating website from a shared server to a dedicated server.
NO server crash when website experienced a sudden surge.

In terms of costing cloud hosting companies charge pay-per-use basis, so no need to reserve massive server powers to avoid website crash from sudden traffic surge. So Cost is another huge plus if we need a lot of processing power.

Cloud hosting companies charge their users based on the quantity of computing power consumed.
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