Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting definition in easy to understand term – “Cloud hosting is a group of inter connected servers may be located at different locations. ”

Please focus on few key words to understand cloud hosting in better manner-

It is a group of servers- Means there are more then one servers.

Servers are interconnected – These servers can interchange information of data stored.

Servers presence (Location) – Cloud severs are present in more then one location. They are located in more then one country (in general).

Cloud hosting works on Virtual Environment managed by cloud computing technology.

Lets understand two two words in above definition in few more words.

Virtual environment – The inter connected servers share the data from one server to another, from one location to other. You, as a user can control the server, its data, resources from a very remote location that too very quickly. In other words you can control the cloud servers from very remote location that too with relatively ease.

In Cloud hosting virtual environment, Your data is saved in multiple servers for security and demand manage.

Cloud computing – You can increase or decrease the resources of servers ( like RAM, memory, CPU etc.) very easily and quickly. For example ,if there is a sudden spike in traffic to your website hosted on cloud, then you can increase the CPU or RAM instantly.

In addition, The cloud servers manage the traffic demand efficiently. For Example, If one of the servers is not responding, then under cloud technology, the cloud server would user other servers to serve the demand. Thus it saves time and reduce downtime.

All above happens due to cloud computing.

There are many general and technological difference between Web hosting (Traditional Shared hosting) and Cloud hosting.

Few of these are are-

1. Number of servers– The traditional web hosting has only one server where as cloud hosting has multiple servers. Your website or application is saved on multiple servers under cloud hosting.
2. Server location– Since traditional web hosting uses one one server, the location of the server remains one. Under cloud hosting, there are multiple server at multiple location. There are interconnected to exchange the data
3. Resources- The RAM, CPU,Storage etc. cannot be increase suddenly under Traditional web hosting. It is very quickly.
4. Scaling– The scaling of resources are very quick and easy in Cloud Hosting.
5. Speed -Cloud hosting would always be faster the traditional web hosting. Because of the interconnected servers. In cloud hosting, if One of its server is receiving heavy traffic, then it can take data from other server and thus serve the data faster.
6. Security- Since, your data or website is hosted on more then one server, there are low chances of loosing your data hence cloud is more secure hosting than traditional web hosting.
7. Technology– Off course, the cloud is far more secure, fast and superior technology then traditional web hosting technology.

Yes, Cloud hosting is better then other hosting options (traditional web hosting). because of the following main features of cloud hosting-

Technology– Cloud computing is far superior technology then traditional hosting services.

Security– Due to multiple server presence at multiple location, cloud hosting is considered to be a better hosting. As it protects against physical loss and cyber attack.

Speed– The cloud technology uses data from other servers in case there is load one one server. Hence there is low change of getting website or application hosted with going slow.

Scalability – This is the a main difference. The scaling of resources like CPU & RAM is quick and remote. Hence it give lots of flexibility to you to scale as per your need.

Price- Cloud hosting has price advantage too for the websites where the traffic goes up at certain time frame of certain part of a year. You can choose to pay as per your server need. I mean of there is need for higher CPU, higher RAM and higher server confutation then you can quickly scale it and pay only for period or pay according to usage.

However this advantage is more useful for enterprises. For general website and blog this may not be very critical advantage.

Unlike typical perception, cloud hosting is affordable too. The cost of the cloud hosting depends on your need. The cost of cloud hosting starts at as low as $5 a month for a basic plan which has one RAM(1 GB), one CPU & 25 GB storage (Linode cloud hosting).

Please note that the cost of the cloud hosting depends on the configuration of the server (Resources)that you need. As the size of the RAM, storage , CPU & transfer increases the price of the cloud hosting goes up.

There is no specific formula to calculate exact pricing. Each cloud hosting provider would offer different price.

One important point about the cost of cloud hosting- The applications or website that needs to scale the resources sometimes, can opt for price-as-per-usage. This is the more cost effective way for such applications.

In our website yourWPstore.com you can find cloud hosting service providers and companies in different price range.

It completely depends on individual need. In order to choose best cloud hosting provider you can evaluate the companies in following criteria-

Server Location- There are cloud hosting provider who have presence in almost every part of the word. Means they have international presence.

There are some hosting companies who have server in one or two location like USA & EU, USA & UK etc.

If your visitors or users are from all around the world then choose the cloud hosting provider who have international presence. Else choose a cloud host near your target audience.

Up time- You can also check what % of time the server was up. Ideally it should be 100% but lets be practical. It would be generally less then 100% . However most the the cloud hosting provider claim to offer 99% to 99.95 up time.

Price- A very important parameter to choose the right cloud hosting provider. Each hosting provider may charge differently. To help you to choose the best cloud hosting we have a category for cloud hosting providers and companies where as you can short them basis price ( High to low and low to high).

You can even compare the cloud hosting providers.

Features- There are more then 100 features in total on which you can compare and choose a cloud hosting for you. Some of the useful feature that you should look into are-

Apps – It should let install apps for website buiding like WordPress, dropal etc.

Back up- Is it automatic or not, what is the frequency

There could be many other features like Ease of use, hardware type, Security type,

Please refer our category page cloud hosting providers and companies.

It should help you to find the best cloud hosting provider for you. In the category page you can short providers basis price, You can filter basis few features. You can compare two or more cloud hosting provider basis all features, price and plans.

What more, you can also see review with pros and cons.

Hope this will help you to find best cloud hosting provider for you.

RAM full form is Random Access Memory. RAM stores the data and files on temporary basis when these are being processed by CPU.

In other words, when there is a request for data or content from your website or app hosted on a cloud server. It first comes at RAM from storage and remains there till the request is being processed by CPU.

RAM does not store data forever, When power goes down, the data is erased from RAM.

The Size of RAM impact cloud server performance.

Take a general example- There is a sudden spike in the demand for videos on your website that is hosted on Cloud hosting server. If RAM size is more then your user would feel more speed.

Note- a high ram should also be complemented with more CPU for better cloud hosting performance.

DDOS stands for distributed Denial or services. 

It is a kind of attack on website of application to stop them working by sending too much of traffic request so that the servers run above the capacity.The traffic sent are generally automated by softwares.

There are few Cloud hosting services that comes with in-built DDOS protection tools. 
Or you can buy a security tool to protect your server or website from DDOS attack.