What is Cloud Hosting
Cloud hosting is the procurement of computing resources from a cloud computing provider or facility to host data, services and/or solutions.
Cloud hosting is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud delivery model that provides a suite of remote/virtual services. These are delivered on an on-demand basis and hosted on top of a cloud computing infrastructure. Cloud hosting is the procurement of computing resources from a cloud computing provider or facility to host data, services and/or solutions.
Cloud hosting is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud delivery model that provides a suite of remote/virtual services. These are delivered on an on-demand basis and hosted on top of a cloud computing infrastructure.
Cloud Hosting Benefits
One of the main benefits of using cloud hosting services is flexible and more cost-efficient scalability in building applications, websites and other services. Because users can scale as needed, they are charged only for the services they use and do not pay for any unused capacity. This payment system makes cloud hosting a relatively inexpensive method of storage.
Cloud hosting provides untapped flexibility in scaling hosted resources. Moreover, cloud hosting may also combine the capacity of several servers to provide a single cloud-hosted server. Some of the cloud hosted solutions are cloud servers, cloud desktops, cloud storage and more.
How Does It Work?
Continuing our example of Google, whenever you perform a search, the queries run on a massive network of computers (cloud), and instead of being limited to a single server, Google has nothing to worry about the load.
This gives complete flexibility of adding more systems (servers) in the network in order to cope up with the additional load (whether expected or unexpected). Therefore, one can scale up the operations manifolds without really facing any downtime.
Types of Cloud
Cloud can be of three types
1. Private Cloud – This type of cloud is maintained within an organization and
used solely for their internal purpose. So the utility model is not a big term
in this scenario. Many companies are moving towards this setting and experts
consider this is the 1st step for an organization to move into cloud. Security,
network bandwidth are not critical issues for private cloud.
2. Public Cloud – In this type an organization rents cloud services from cloud
providers on-demand basis. Services provided to the users using utility com-
puting model.
3. Hybrid Cloud – This type of cloud is composed of multiple internal or exter-
nal cloud. This is the scenario when an organization moves to public cloud
computing domain from its internal private cloud.
