Cloud hosting had been creating quite a buzz around these days. You might be hearing the phrase for the first time but the technology is not something new at this time of writing. In fact, you're already part of the cloud hosting/computing users (without being noticed) as Google naturally is a big promoter of this idea.
Google searches (as well as other Google operations) are operating under a massive computer infrastructure (cloud!) that people tap into from their local computers.
What is cloud hosting?
Generally, website hosted on a cloud hosting operates on a clustered servers where online operations are not limited to a single server. By handling security, load balance and hardware resources virtually, the website has access to the processing power of a number of servers that are distributed in real time.
Benefits of cloud hosting
Cloud hosting benefits the users from various angles. It's scalability and cost efficient is the commonly known advantages.
As the technology is highly scalable, website expansion can be done without the limitation in server resources. Think about the hassle of migrating your website from a shared server to a dedicated server; think about server crash when your website experienced a sudden surge - with the scalability of cloud hosting, all these problem can be avoided easily.
Cloud hosting companies charge their users based on the quantity of computing power used. It's like your electricity and water supply bills - it's pay-per-use. Gone are the days where you need to reserve high server powers in order to avoid website crash, server resources are now used on demand.
As a service to our clients, we offer colocation options within our Data Center. Our customers can place their network, server and storage gear in our secure environment with a minimum of cost and complexity.
Increasingly, organizations are recognizing the benefits of colocating their mission-critical equipment within a data center. Colocation is becoming popular because of the time and cost savings a company can realize as result of using a shared data center infrastructure. With IT and communications facilities in safe, secure hands, telecommunications, internet, ASP and content providers, as well as enterprises, enjoy less latency and the freedom to focus on their core business.
Additionally, customers reduce their traffic back-haul costs and free up their internal networks for other uses. Moreover, by outsourcing network traffic to a colocation service provider with greater bandwidth capacity, web site access speeds should improve considerably.
Major types of colocation customers include:
Web commerce companies, who use the facilities for a safe environment and cost-effective, redundant connections to the Internet
Major enterprises, who use the facility for disaster avoidance, offsite data backup and business continuity
Telecommunication companies, who use the facilities to interexchange traffic with other telecommunications companies and access to potential clients
Shared vs Dedicated Hosting
You may be trying to decide which type of hosting is best suited for your needs. It's a legitimate question because each has it's own advantages and you will need to be well informed if you are to feel confident in whichever choice you make.
The Shared Hosting concept means each server hosts multiple clients who all share the same resources. Webspace, memory, processor speed and bandwidth is spread out among all the clients who host on a particular server.
Dedicated Hosting means that the client has one server all to themselves. In doing so, there is no sharing of resources, giving the client more flexibility with the available webspace, memory, processor speed and bandwidth .
The advantages and disadvantages of Dedicated Hosting and Shared Hosting run conversely with one another. While Shared Hosting gives you fewer resources, the cost is also much lower. The opposite is true of Dedicated Hosting. While you have greater flexibility over your resources, the cost can be much more than with the Shared Hosting concept. Most companies will agree that a tradeoff on one side is worth the benefit on the other, be it either greater flexibility or greater savings.
WCC-IT: Hosted Exchange Infrastructure You Can Count On
When you choose an Exchange hosting service, you choose more than just Exchange - you trust a company with your critical business communications.
Here is why you can trust your communications to WCC-IT, a leading provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010.
100 Percent Data Protection Guarantee made possible by "site replication"
We offer Exchange 2010 with a 100 percent Data Protection Guarantee - ensuring your email is completely protected and available in the event of a simple hardware failure or even a catastrophic data center outage.
We can credibly offer a 100 percent data protection guarantee because of the way we architected our hosted Exchange 2010 environment. Customer data is replicated multiple times across our East and West coast data centers. This protects your data in the event of hardware failure, database corruption or even a catastrophic data center loss.
The damage to your business if multiple years-worth of critical business data is lost cannot be calculated. WCC-IT's 100 percent data protection architecture is the only choice that guarantees your data is safe.
99.999 percent uptime SLA backed by premium hardware and connectivity
Our four data centers also run on premium hardware from EMC, Dell and Cisco. Each has multiple Tier 1 Internet connections. Together, these investments help us deliver against an uptime service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees less than six minutes of downtime - per year.