Cloud hosting

Cloud hosting  is one type of hosting. Cloud hosting services have generated a lot of buzz in recent times.  In fact, if use Gmail for checking your webmail, Flickr for sharing photos and perform online searches with Google, you are making use of services that operate in the cloud hosting infrastructure.  Let’s see what the cloud has to offer.

Cloud hosting also known as clustered hosting. It is a solution that uses virtualization technology. This technology is used to facilitate load balancing, security and system resources over multiple servers.  Instead of relying a single piece of hardware, your website and applications can benefit from the resources of multiple servers.    Cloud hosting is a concept that frees you of the limitations providing you with on-demand access to an infrastructure that is virtually inexhaustible.  Whereas, in the typical shared hosting environment, a website is limited to the bandwidth, disk space, RAM, processing power and others resources allocated to the physical machine. The mere structure of the cloud makes it easy to scale, up or down, based on your individual requirements.

Lets see the benefits of Cloud Hosting

  • Its scalability and cost efficiency.
  • Flexible pay-per-usage model.
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1 Comment

  1. anitha said,

    November 27, 2009 at 7:32 am

    Nice post..!!! thanks.. :)


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