A Brief On Cloud Hosting

[dmvictoria]

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Cloud computing refers to any process (ie. hosting), method or activity that involves the cloud. The cloud, on the other hand, is the virtual server or system that is accessible online, where users can store and edit files, and perform a wide variety of IT tasks. This technology uses the real cloud as a metaphor, where one can imagine storing files in it, and being able to access it anytime and anywhere as long as there is an Internet connection.

Generally, a cloud-hosted website is operating on multiple connected servers. Instead of limited to a single server like what we have in traditional hosting services (dedicated/VPS hosting), the website now has the access to multiple servers. Virtually, the processing power is unlimited as you can always add a new server and scale up.

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I'm starting to feel the limits of my shared hosting account and have been playing with the idea of upgrading to a dedicated server to meet my needs. For the last couple of weeks Google ads have been serving me up 'Cloud Hosting' advertisements to try and get my attention. Well... I guess it worked.

So I started poking around and found this article and thought I'd share it with you.

I like the idea of being able to handle traffic spikes, virtually 100% up time, automatic scalability etc. But, it seems the price can easily get away from you, especially if you're looking for managed like me.

I see base rates starting at about $10 a month unmanaged. Managed, can run at $200 and much more. I guess for those prices I should probably figure out how to run a server.

Whats your thoughts on using a cloud host instead of dedicated? Is it the future of hosting?

[Bob Barr]

When companies the size of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon can get hit with cloud disasters, I'm still more than a bit leery of the whole concept:

5 Serious Cloud Failures & Disasters of 2011

Year 2011 has been a challenging one for cloud computing service providers. It is not that they did not managed and monitored cloud related issues properly; it is simply that outages can occur at any point of time despite monitoring cloud servers so thoroughly and keenly. Nevertheless, five cloud computing outages in the year 2011 include reputed and popular names like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Excerpt. Five examples are listed in the article at: http://www.cloudways.com/blog/cloud-...sters-of-2011/

Maybe I'm just being paranoid. I don't know.

[Dreamrage]

hmmm. I am not sure about hosting, but to answer as much as I can without advertising, the product our company creates is a cloud based intranet system, and so far, I have worked on it for close on two years and have never had a problem, no downtime, data loss etc. and its a critical factor because its used to keep people's lives safe. lol so we must be doing something right.

I guess hosting on the cloud can be expensive, if you look at the amount of servers they need to use for the system to work, and then generally making backups as you go along in case of a worst case scenario. On the whole though, I think its kinda useful and a lot more dependable than the norm. Whether or not I would use cloud hosting?, I would use it if it didn't cost an arm and a leg, because I know it works if its structured properly.