Understanding Cloud Hosting

Cloud Hosting has been creating a lot of ripples around in the hosting industry. People are talking about it every now and then, for the not so technically sound it is future. But guys cloud hosting is just around the corner. All the major hosting industry player are getting geared up to get their pie on the new void in the market.

A million Dollar Question: What is Cloud Hosting?

A cloud is basically an infrastructure that operates on a distributed data center environment over multiple connected servers, instead of limiting the hosting to a single server (traditional hosting). The infrastructure is scalable and is virtually unlimited as you can always add a new server and scale up.

More About Cloud Hosting

Besides being scalable cloud computing has 3 major aspects which makes cloud computing what it is today or is going to be.

  • software as a service - where applications are available on demand and on a subscription basis;
  • utility computing - where server capacity is accessed across a grid as a variably priced and shared service;
  • virtualisation - where applications are separated from infrastructure.

Cloud Hosting handles security, load balancing and server resources virtually, so users are not restricted to the limits of one physical piece of hardware or server.

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