What is Cloud Hosting?

cloud You might be aware of it, or you might not – however you are already doing cloud hosting.  Do you check your e-mail via Gmail?  Do you share your photos via Flickr?

These are just two popular examples of hosting from the clouds.

With cloud hosting you say goodbye to the old idea of renting a server or shared server space.  In its place, cloud hosting provides us with server clustering.  Instead of using the power of one server, you have access to the power of many; linked together through visualization.

An Example of Where Cloud Hosting is Needed

We have all seen the situations where a web site might be under stress because it has had a sudden burst of popularity.  With regular shared hosting we have today – once that web site reaches the limits of the single server it is on, it chokes.  Now with a cloud hosting setup, you would have access to a number of different servers so the web site under stress could still have access to as much bandwidth, RAM, CPU power or any other server side resource that it needed.

Cloud hosting provides computing power, on demand, when you need it.  If you no longer need so much power, you can easily release the resources back into the proverbial “cloud” so that they can be used by others.

Three Reasons Why Cloud Hosting is Good for You

The most important thing to remember is that hardware is no longer your main focus with cloud hosting.  You new main focus is your web site.  Cloud hosting is easy to scale to meet your demand.  Cloud hosting provides computing power when you need it.  Cloud hosting only requires you to pay for what you use.

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    I would like to see a post on why you would not want Cloud Hosting as it is not all that some make it up to be.

  2. TinyHster Jul 14, 2009 at 10:23 am #

    Nice explanation, how many big hosts are offering this now? Mediatemple is the only one I can think of but there has to be more.

  3. Mitch Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 am #

    Will see what I can do!

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