Why Cloud hosting?

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what hosting always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. The technology behind Cloud hosting allows us to have a cost effective, reliable and scalable architecture. The processing capacity of the Cloud is unlimited because we can add servers and resources to the Cloud as per our requirement.

Lets discuss on some points regarding Cloud hosting:

1. Cost effective : The first reason to choose Cloud is to save money. Cloud Servers are charged by the hour and you will only be billed for the resource you used. The cost of buying individual servers is much higher than virtualization. Even though you may save costs on hardware, the costs of the virtualization software and licensing may be high. You may have to treat each virtual server as a physical instance like before, so normal licensing costs for each virtual server stays as same.

2. Ease in IT growth : To deploy a Cloud server, it takes very less time period and its quite easy also. After selecting the server type and needed softwares, your Cloud server will be configured and ready to use in few minutes. Also, server can be destroyed within a few minutes. If you are a company adding 10 servers per month then this will be the perfect choice.

3. Scalability : It is easy to vertically scale the Cloud server by simply selecting the amount of resources you want to assign to your Server. You can easily add and remove computing power, memory resources & hard drive space.

4. Security : Setting up a security plan for a Cloud server environment is easier because you can focus on a universal security model.

5. Migration : Many Cloud products come with software that helps you migrate applications from your older dedicated servers to new virtual servers. This means that upgrades to your environment can be much easier as long as you stay with similar virtualization products.

6. Server redundancy : Cloud server has full redundancy. If the host server fails sometime, the cloud server instantly restarts on a new host within seconds of failure, effectively decreasing downtime and increasing redundancy. One of the benefits of a private cloud deployment is that, you can get automatic failover between hardware platforms to bring up your server, set in a separate data center when your primary data center experience an outage.

7. Disaster Recovery : If your Cloud server fails and is unrecoverable, you can simply power on the Cloud server backup image. Your Cloud server will be back and running in a few minutes. One-click snapshot backups are stored in multiple physical sites.

Final Note :

The tools needed to manage a Cloud server is available in all the webhost providers site like firewall, private networking, backup, restoration , monitoring & scaling. It can be easily performed from within your browser. These features do not require any additional charge except for any hard-disk storage. The strong benefits of cloud meets the specific needs of clients. It is an upcoming technology that delivers flexibility, high-performance, scalability and reliability. As I said, the benefits of Cloud computing are going to be unique to each business case, each user community and enterprise.

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