Cloud Hosting

[LH-Danny]

Has anyone clicked onto cloud hosting yet? I see more and more providers offering it now and I wonder how it performs compared to normal shared hosting or a VPS.

Let us know what you think about it all and your experience.

[carbonize]

Given that Cloud means hosted on a server somewhere how does that work

[LH-Danny]

(Mar-21-2011 05:54 PM)carbonize Wrote:  Given that Cloud means hosted on a server somewhere how does that work

Hmmm... I don't understand what you mean?

[carbonize]

When we refer to something as being in the cloud we mean it is stored on the internet and so can be retrieved from any computer or device. Web based email is in the cloud, documents stored on Google docs or similar are in the cloud. Web hosting is, by it's very nature, in the cloud.

[LH-Danny]

Cloud hosting actually has so many definitions, everytime I visit WHT there's someone posting a new one. However, cloud hosting is generally where multiple servers are grouped together so when a user uploads a website their files are distributed across multiple server - The same with their database, email etc, you get the idea.

This means if a server goes down, or a peice of hardware fails somewhere; there will be (almost) no downtime because another server will takeover that role within the matter of seconds.

[carbonize]

Sounds like RAID to me. But given they intend to host the same files across multiple servers you are going to be talking at least twice as many servers and therefore twice as much cost.

[LH-Danny]

Yeah, exactly. I guess it's mainly for sites that need 100% uptime.

I found a definition on a cloud providers website, which says:

The cloud features a central storage setup, with hyper visors to provide the memory and CPU power you need. Should a Hyper Visor fail or go offline, your data is just fine, and is quietly moved to another Hyper Visor to resume its operations.

(Taken from Virpus.com)

[Redirect Left]

Cloud hosting? For the first time I hear of it. That's obviously new, isn't it?

Regards,
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[LH-Danny]

(Mar-28-2011 04:00 AM)Redirect Left Wrote:  Cloud hosting? For the first time I hear of it. That's obviously new, isn't it?

Regards,
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It has been around for quite a few years now, but the concept is really just taking off with more and more hosting companies now offering it.

[upthevale]

I think its just the next logical steps for hosting, it needs to have more facilities for when stuff does go down