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Old 01-23-2012, 05:06 AM
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Post Traditional Hosting vs Cloud hosting

Traditional Hosting: Traditional hosting comes mainly in two forms, dedicated and shared. With dedicated hosting, a company pays for the complete resources of one or more servers from a service provider. The client has a set amount of dedicated bandwidth, CPU, RAM, and drive space, and the client has full control over the servers resources.
With shared hosting, which is more common among small and medium sized businesses, the client pays for a set amount of space (storage) on a single server, and that server's resources are shared by a number of other websites. It's a cost-efficient, low-maintenance way to host a website or application, and the hosting company is responsible for managing, maintaining, and updating the units.
You will need to adapt by purchasing additional server space to add to your storage space and processing power. But if traffic falls again, you will be paying for resources that you aren't using.

Cloud Hosting: Cloud hosting offers a level of scalability that traditional hosting can't. Cloud hosting companies provide virtual space on an on-demand, as-needed basis. Instead of paying for a set amount of space upfront on a single server, the user pays as they go for what they actually use.
With cloud hosting, the load is balanced across a cluster of multiple servers. The information and applications contained on those servers are mirrored across the whole cluster, meaning that if an individual server goes down, there is no lost information or downtime. Because of this redundancy, cloud hosting is much more elastic and resilient. Problems with one website or application are unlikely to affect your bandwidth or performance.

Most Imp thing: Cloud hosting is still a relatively new technology, and many who have experience with traditional hosting are hesitant to move to something different. Shared hosting provides consumers with a convenient, low-entry hosting solution, and many users never experience problems. But if you're looking for a low-cost, flexible, easily scalable hosting solution, it may be time to move to the cloud.
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Old 02-08-2012, 12:22 PM
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Obviously cloud computing technology is a future of web hosting … however, it will take time to take place of traditional hosting services specially dedicated hosting …
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Obviously cloud computing technology is a future of web hosting … however, it will take time to take place of traditional hosting services specially dedicated hosting …
Let’s Look At The Benefits Of Cloud Hosting

High-Availability – cloud hosting can happen across multiple data centers that are geographically diverse. This means websites can continue to run even in the event of a failure of one server. Of course even this plan can occasionally fail, but for the most part it means cloud hosting is extremely reliable.
Scalability – Depending on your choice of cloud hosting plans, your website can usually ‘scale up’ by deploying more resources than are included in your plan. This can be very beneficial for websites that get a sudden burst of traffic. If a website is mentioned on ‘Good Morning America‘ the website could immediately scale up to handle 40,000 users an hour, even though the site usually gets 100. In the ‘old days’ before cloud hosting, the server would quit responding as the traffic went through the roof. Now all requests will be completed, which should result in higher profits.
Efficiency – Cloud hosting is efficient because of how resources are handled. If websites are not being used heavily, the servers will respond by reducing their workload. Cloud data centers tend to be chiefly concerned with efficiency and most of them are more ‘eco-friendly‘ than traditional alternatives. The rise of virtualization and cloud computing has ushered in a new era of efficient data centers while the use of cloud computing helps other organizations improve their operational capacity.

As you can see, there are some essential benefits that can be achieved by utilizing cloud hosting. Businesses can benefit greatly, especially those organizations that make substantial money from their web presences. Companies that run websites that are featured on the news will also be thankful they have cloud hosting.
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