How is Cloud Hosting Better than Server Hosting?

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Jun 6, 2016
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This article is for all those who are thinking or have already planned on owning a website in India as some insight on how hosting of a website works can help you a lot.

What does hosting of a website means? Hosting is like renting a computer to store all the files required for your website and what the host does is that it links all those files to the domain (the address of your website) that you have bought. We need server machines to do the hosting as our personal computers are not so fast enough to keep up with the requests.

Hosting is primarily of two types:

1. Server hosting
2. Cloud hosting

Server hosting has been the main form of hosting a website since the inception of Internet and websites. In this form of hosting the customer buys a server space in a data center this is great as it is cheap and offers an up time of nearly 99%. By up time it means that your website will be available to access at a probability of 99%. That is really good as it comes for a cheap price. This approach of hosting has its own limitations as the resources are shared between all the users using the same server machine, if one of the website overloads the server machine then all the users will have to suffer because of that.

If you have got money in your pocket then you can go for dedicated hosting with the server machines, it is really good as you have all the control over your resources and there is no hassle of other users sharing your resources, but this approach has also got limitations and are even worse than that of shared hosting. The worse point is that at the cost you put in for dedicated hosting you are only able to utilise maximum 60% of the efficiency.

How does Cloud hosting helps reduce these limitations? What cloud hosting does is that it makes use of many server machines which work in unison and act as a single cloud. This distributes your resources to different servers in a secure manner and hence making sure even if one server machine is overloaded your website is still accessible through internet and with the same speed as it usually does. Cloud hosting also increases the efficiency of server machines by making use of most of the resources and yet not overloading a machine.

In India there is a lot of need for cloud hosting as in the past 5 years many I.T. start-ups have come up and are trying to make their way up on the Indian I.T. scene. The cloud computing service providers in Chennai have done a commendable job in providing data cloud hosting in Chennai as well as throughout India.

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