Now, many might be getting excited about cloud hosting, and how it is going to innovate and change the way we all related to the world of web hosting. What many places and people forget to mention are the negative impacts that cloud hosting might have. Yes, there are some negative issues about cloud hosting that might need to be worked out before it can go main stream.
Cloud Hosting is Still New – I hate to play the role of Captain Obvious, but cloud hosting is still a relatively new thing in the world of web hosting. It is hard to get people to try something and in turn, it is hard to troubleshoot a problem because there is a chance, somebody has not run into it before. That leads us into the next big issue with cloud web hosting, which is…
There are Not Enough Cloud Hosting Experts – When a web host adds “cloud hosting” to their line up of services, it is often setup by a third party, and then that third party is gone. It is up to the web host to hire people who know how to troubleshoot cloud hosting issues, or to train the current staff – and that can sometimes be another cost web hosts are not going to want to flip the bill on.
The Cloud Hosting Idea is Still Confusing to Many – Web hosting in the general and traditional sense, still confuses a lot of people. If it didn’t, you wouldn’t be listening to a podcast about it. Now, pulling the proverbial tablecloth out from under these web hosting customers who have just started to understand what web hosting is all about, and saying, “Oh no, now we keep your data in the clouds” is really going to tick people off. Until cloud hosting is easily explainable, I don’t think it has a chance of replacing your traditional hosting setup.
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So, not to say cloud hosting is a bad thing, it just has many more hurdles to jump over before it is a mainstream service that people really want to use.
