Cloud Hosting Decoded

In this blog, I’m going to cover the basics of Cloud Hosting and whether it’s time for you to make the move and leave your traditional hosting package behind. Most of you might have hosted your first website on a Shared Hosting package because it’s easy and you can avoid the complexity of understanding web hosting. Times have changed and everyone is getting on the cloud – The real question is, should you too?

Cloud Hosting is an easy and affordable solution for anyone who doesn’t have the technical knowhow  to understand complex hosting or the budget for a  Dedicated Server and VPS. Cloud  is the optimum solution for a growing business with flexibility in scaling up easily at its core. While Cloud Hosting is a very wide term and consists of a lot of technical definitions, I’ll help you break it down and decide if it’s time to upgrade after all.

What is Cloud Hosting?

Cloud Hosting is simply a network of independent servers that operate together and act as one big server. This one big server does not depend on any single server but relies on all of them acting together as one.

Cloud Hosting Decoded

Let’s take an example of an army here: Assume all the soldiers are independent servers, together they make up the army which is one big server. If a soldier is injured, another soldier can cover for him till his replacement comes, just like how a server faces temporary downtime. There is no reliability on any single soldier, but together they make up the army. The army is Cloud Hosting.

Why should Guaranteed Resources be so important to you?

With traditional hosting, the dependency on one physical server is high. If anything goes wrong and the server is impacted, you could face a lot of downtime. This situation doesn’t arise with Cloud Hosting. Resources like bandwidth and diskspace are provisioned by a network of servers for you to host your website and web applications. This allows flexibility in upgrade if and when your website traffic grows.

For example, when you request for more storage, all your provider does is provision more storage capacity for your plan from the network of servers, better known as the ‘cloud’, this guarantees the maximum provisioning of resources, a crucial feature to consider for a growing business. Since you’re not sharing resources of a single server with other users, there is no shortcoming in resources your provider claims to give you.

Reasons to make the move

While the reasons to wave your traditional hosting goodbye are many, let me highlight what might matter the most to you from a business standpoint. With Cloud Hosting you can:

  • Maximise website performance because the load is distributed evenly between the network of servers
  • Fully use your resources like CPU, Storage etc
  • Scale and Upgrade as you grow
  • Enjoy better security of uptime, since there is no single point resulting in server failure
  • Benefit from low pricing, in some cases pay for what you use

Cloud Hosting vs Traditional Hosting

Scaling is easier with Cloud Hosting as opposed to Shared Hosting. There might be a time when your existing hosting package might not be enough and you might need to move to a VPS from Shared Hosting. With Cloud Hosting, you upgrade when the time is right for you and your business.

Cloud Hosting is more reliable than traditional hosting since your website is not provisioned by one instance on a single server, rather, a network of servers provisions resources to host your website. Cloud Hosting helps you cope with any kind of failure or downtime that you might experience with traditional hosting.

Conclusion

If you’re convinced that Cloud Hosting is the right choice for you and your business and you’re ready to make the move, check out ResellerClub’s cloud hosting plans. I purchased my package from them, it’s an easy to use product and they provide you with a panel to manage your package as well. They have good pricing and support and usually have a lot of promotional offers all year round. What’s special about ResellerClub’s Cloud Hosting vs other providers is the technology and infrastructure they use is cutting-edge, but they offer the familiar cPanel interface that simplifies it for even the common-man to use!.