In the world of internet, the term- “cloud hosting” has made a silent entry but has highly influenced the web masters in very few time with the great benefits associated with it. Starting with very basic concept; hosting is basically related to website or web launching services through which an individual or organization upload its website over the internet so as people can access it over World Wide Web. In web hosting, a webpage or website is uploaded over a space in a particular server provided by a hosting company. As in normal hosting, the webpages are uploaded over a single server thus the speed and efficiency of the specific server defines the information processing capabilities. To enhance the capabilities of websites to process data for more and more number of audiences at the same time, cloud hosting came into account.
Concept behind cloud hosting
In cloud hosting, a website data is hosted over a number of clustered servers connected with each other. This allows the webpages to utilize the processing capabilities of all the connected servers in real time leading to an enhanced performance. A website uploaded through cloud hosting can process bulk data and can share resources like software, videos, audios, images to number of clients in the fastest possible ways.
Categories of Cloud Hosting
Cloud hosting can be categorised in multiple ways but are mostly associated with 4 major service categories:
- Public Cloud: In this hosting service, the webpages, applets, software and all the computing components are hosted in a third party cloud servers. You will not have any visibility of the cloud server resources.
- Private Cloud: In this hosting service, only one organization owns the entire computing infrastructure. This is a dedicated hosting service which is not shared over public and offers high safety. This cloud hosting service can be managed by the organization internally or externally with the help of any third party service provider. Although private clouds are quiet expensive and generally large organizations prefers them.
- Hybrid Cloud: The organization who does not wants to invest high budget over private clouds but still want to provide greater security to important applications, prefers hybrid cloud. In this hosting service, the combination of private and public clouds is used as per the safety requirement of specific applications.
- Community hosting: in this hosting service, the cloud architecture is shared among the groups that belong to a common community or share a common goal.
Benefits Associated with Cloud hosting
The reason for the great impact of cloud hosting service over the internet is the high benefits associated with it. Some such benefits are:
- Less starting cost as one has not to invest in computing infrastructure for storing resources.
- Due to several servers connected with each other, one will not to worry about the bulk traffic.
- No complex hosting technique knowledge requirement as the third party cloud providers can do it for you in any effort.
- Easily upgradable as per the needs
- Offers high redundancy
Also the organization does not have to worry about the data loss as it offers network backups. There are several other benefits and features of cloud hosting, which are forcing the organizations to prefer it over the traditional ways of web hosting.
