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Cloud Hosting Hardware

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Cloud hosting is a type of web hosting that enables your website to scale without replacing or upgrading hardware.

Cloud Hosting has been creating quite a buzz around these days and Cloud hosting is going to change the world around us in many ways as it has got many benefits like It lets you focus on making your website great, instead of how to keep it running. This can happen because of the cloud multiple servers linked together to form one platform. Because there are many servers instead of one, it balances the load, increases capacity, and eliminates a single point of failure. That is, if a server’s hard drive fails, your site is unaffected, because your data is mirrored on other servers. Instead of limited to a single server like what we have in traditional hosting services (dedicated/shared hosting), the website now has the access to multiple servers. Virtually, the processing power is unlimited as you can always add a new server and scale up.

Cloud hosting benefits the users from various angles. Its scalability and cost efficient is the commonly known advantages.

As the technology is highly scalable (load balancing, hardware upgrades etc.) website expansion can be done with minimum limitations. 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  all these problem can be avoided easily by switching to cloud hosting.

Cost is another huge plus if you need a lot of processing power. Cloud hosting companies charge their users based on the quantity of computing power consumed. It’s like your electricity and water supply bills  it’s pay per use thus gone are the days where you need to reserve massive server powers to avoid website crash from sudden traffic surge.

The benefits outweigh the disadvantages of cloud hosting and everyone knows the future of hosting is cloud hosting.

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CommVault Cloud Hosting

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Cloud DR, the newest release by CommVault is the newest mid-market disaster recovery offering that enables customers to realize higher levels of business continuity without the large capital investments typically required by traditional, off-premises disaster recovery solutions.

This new CommVault cloud hosting will be a flexible disaster recovery solution that leverages the seamless integration between CommVault’s enterprise cloud computing-optimized Simpana software and Rackspace’s cloud hosting services.

“CommVault is redefining mid-market disaster recovery by offering a fully integrated Cloud DR solution, which reduces the financial challenges associated with traditional DR services that provide affordable and rapid recovery of backup and archive data residing in the cloud,” said Jeff Echols, senior director of cloud strategy & alliances for CommVault, in a statement.

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Cloud Hosting Pitfalls

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

According to IT experts, cloud computing is the next best thing since the internet. A few years after the inception of the internet, those experts had also opined that the net was the ultimate compliment to personal computers. As things stand now, breach of security, personal or commercial, is one of the major worries for users of the internet. Nobody is safe on the internet, regardless of the security measures employed and since cloud computing is totally dependant on the internet, the pitfalls inherent to the latter, is also applicable to the former.

Undoubtedly, there are many benefits of internet-based computing, which permits end-users to access costly software and resources through their browser, and use them locally on their personal computer. However, what happens when the server hosting those programs breaks down? Configured properly, the server should seamlessly pass on control to a mirror server hosting the same programs. The bitter truth is that this does not happen all the time.

There are innumerous cases of abandoned time-sensitive, abandoned because the local PC undertaking them could not establish a network connection with the software hosting mainframe. This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the cons of cloud computing is concerned. If hackers can compromise the airtight security of the servers of leading international corporates, including banks, they can also find their way into the secured mainframes used in cloud computing.

Once they manage to do so, they can easily navigate their way into each node (PC) connected to those mainframes. If any of these personal computers were simultaneously coupled to more than one mainframe, it would provide the hackers an easy path to gain control of the other mainframes too. One can safely conclude that, as of date, cloud computing is akin to a huge terror network… just waiting to explode.  You need to have the right systems in place so that these cloud hosting pitfalls don’t crush your system.

Best Cloud Server is here to help you avoid some of the major cloud hosting pitfalls that some people are making.  We hope that you enjoy this site and everything it has to offer.

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