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E-Commere Cloud Hosting Questions?

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Will cloud hosting help small Ecommerce websites?

The short answer is it will help all of them.

Will cloud hosting cost large Ecommerce shops more?

Ecommerce is an ideal space for cloud computing because of the cyclical nature of the business. Many online shops, web retailers and vendors have large traffic events (holiday season, specials, and new product launches) that require additional resources to meet the short-term, increased demand. Cloud computing enables business owners to add computing resources (memory or processors), storage (disk space) or network (bandwidth), but just enough to cover the additional requirements and only for as long as they’ll be needed.

Can cloud hosting help during the peak times of the year?

Example: An electronics e-tailer might see a traffic increase of 2 to 3 times during November and December from holiday shoppers. Cloud computing allows the company to add just enough resources for those 6 to 8 weeks to meet the increased traffic demands. Once the holidays are over, those resources can be turned off. The company’s operating costs will presumably be more in line with revenue.

Why are their so many large Ecommerce companies not using cloud servers?

Tons of large Ecommerce businesses would love to switch to the cloud but are unable to do so because of the lack of technical know how.  Also, your cloud hosting provider has to be PCI compliant and there are only a handful of data centers in the world that meet that requirement right now.  Also, many of them are happy doing what they are doing and don’t realize that they could be saving 1000’s of dollars a month with new cloud servers.

Who is the top Ecommerce cloud hosting provider in the World?

Wow, that is a wonderful question.  I would have to say “It depends” on you.  It really depends on what your end goal is?  You need to do your research and find the top cloud server in the world is.  You can visit best cloud server’s “Top Cloud Hosting Reviews” page to find the best and most apporpriate solution for your ecommerce site.

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When Was Cloud Hosting Started?

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The concept of the ”cloud” comes from network architecture drawings of modern telephone system and later the Internet. The early cloud service providers included Amazon Ec2, Rackspace, GoGrid, and Google, which uses it for Gmail and several other applications and services.

“Today, cloud computing typically includes three main offerings (in order):

  • SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). Delivers applications and end-user tools, such as ecommerce applications, and other brands like Google Apps and Salesforce.com.
  • PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). Provides pre-built technology frameworks and development tools, such as Engine Yard AppCloud or xCloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google App Engine.
  • IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Enables computing, storage and network resources to be provisioned without owning physical devices. Example IaaS providers are Amazon Web Services and Terremark.”
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WPC 2010 Updates for Cloud Hosting Providers

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

WPC 2010 Updates for Cloud Hosting Providers.   Microsoft re-newed its commitment to helping cloud service providers deliver cloud services through its software, services and programs, which enable them to become trusted advisers and full-service IT providers to businesses.

Highlighted so far has been this statement; “Microsoft sees service providers becoming more important as the cloud becomes more predominant,” Microsoft communications sector worldwide hosting general manager John Zanni said in a statement. “Given their experience in deploying and selling infrastructure and software as a service, businesses will depend on them for IT as a service. The next step for service providers is to look beyond their current hosted offerings to become full-service IT providers and trusted advisors to businesses.”

They have been talking a lot about how managed hosting provider nGenX was able to work with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit (Microsoft cloud hosting software) and NetApp to include enterprise-class disaster recovery in its automated cloud service, Guardian GeoCloud.  “A major concern of cloud computing among our customers is reliability, as downtime or lost data translates to lost revenue, a damaged reputation and halted productivity,” said Robert A. Bye, executive vice president at nGenX. “By integrating disaster recovery into Guardian GeoCloud, we are able to achieve the reliability that our customers demand, providing replication and failover of their virtualized environments to a remote datacenter. Moreover, our customers now have access to a level of disaster recovery and security traditionally only available to large enterprises, at a fraction of the cost.”

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