What is cloud hosting and why do we use it?

[andrepitt77]

I have heard about server hosting or dedicated hosting but cloud hosting is a new for me. So if you have any knowledge about cloud hosting than please reply me soon.

[WebhostGIANT-Rob]

I assume that Cloud hosting has many advantages over the shared hosting services and sometimes performs better than dedicated hosting solutions.

[ubservers]

Cloud is many things. For some it simply means rapidity of delivery, while for other it means a scalability of resources among a cloud of resources. In this second idea, you are almost guaranteed of a 100% uptime, and 0 hardware failure. Check out some offers that even have pricing per resource per hour like rackspace.
Hope this helps

[Irene]

In short; cloud is a cluster of web servers that to the end user just feels like one server or one website. In other words you can say it's a collection of logical pieces such as storage divices, CPU, Memory, etc.....that you can store and configure and optimize to run your application or website or online portal. These logical pieces are noting but a portions of the physical hardware that creates the cloud environment, but overall they are shared.

Also there are three types in cloud hosting; public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. You can choose any one of them according to your requirements.

In addition, there are many types virtualization technologies available in cloud computing, but mainly Hyper-V and VMware based solution is more popular.

[Centennialbrown]

Cloud hosting offers many advantages over shared hosting or a VPS, due to the number of servers that are being used for a single cluster. The enhanced architecture of cloud utilizes groups of high specification servers, network attached storage devices to reliably serve every web page, and image of a website. A cloud thus offers you 100% uptime and scalability feature.

[SiberForum]

I suppose that Cloud hosting offers benefit to all like better security, flexibility, performance and consolidation. There is even the advantage of redundancy.

[MATHEW]

In short, It is a collection of logical pieces such as storage divices, CPU, Memory, etc.....that you can store and configure and optimize to run your application or website or online portal.

[SiberForum]

Most websites and server-based applications run on particular computers or servers.

What differentiates the cloud from the way those are set up is that the cloud utilizes the resources from the computers as a collective virtual computer.

[andrepitt77]

Today cloud hosting is so popular because it can be stored Images, HTML, Flash files, MPEG, MP4, PDF’s, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and more. Many providers allow you to mount the Cloud as an external drive and also provide FTP capabilities for adding content to the Cloud.It is use because Low cost,Reduce processor load and Easy to administrate.

[HostDone!]

Most websites and server-based applications run on particular computers or servers. What differentiates the cloud from the way those are set up is that the cloud utilizes the resources from the computers as a collective virtual computer, where the applications can run independently from particular computer or server configurations.

[JPC-Sabrina]

I had no idea that cloud has three types of usage: public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. Or, are these levels of use. I have also been confused as to the price structure that some hosts are offering. What is this service by the minute charge? Is that something that is a standard?

[Naveen Yadav]

Cloud Hosting is a part of cloud computing where we subscribe for a server, infrastructure or an application on lease/rent and pay according to our usage. This has been proved beneficial for the business which are heavily dependent on the IT devices and applications but at the same time quite conscious about every dollar spent.

Cloud hosting enables the user to access its application or server anytime from anywhere, with having multiuser access. We also get rid of IT hassles as Cloud hosting service provider (http://www.myrealdata.com) takes care of the same. We get data security and data backup. We can work with our clients and colleagues at real time and no need to send the confidential and bulky files through mails.