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There are some advantages of Cloud hosting. Those are as follows :
There are many advantages, but also disadvantages to cloud hosting - it is not the best answer for everyone hosting things.
While it is a good solution for some things, every option must be considered.
3 and 4 are not necessarily true - if you used amazon ec2 as an example, you get neither by default.
Equally 1 and 2 could be false too (if you host the cloud yourself)
The real advantage to cloud hosting is scalability. For a startup that isn’t certain of what kind of response they will get or an established entity that isn’t sure about growth plans this could be a very good thing. For many though who have small sites or sites catering to a saturated market cloud hosting probably isn’t the most economical solution.
Actually I’d say the main advantage of the decent cloud hosts is resilience. Not many people are concerned about being able to instantly scale their site, put pretty much everyone is bothered about their site going down. A decent cloud provider should be able to offer you far more resilience to hardware failure than traditional hosting options.
Good information! Its really true that cloud computing has many advantages as it is based on a virtualized platform and its economical in a way that you pay for what you need. This is one of the most simplified form of web hosting as your data is secured and scalable.
In the most cases people start the search for that only because they were suggested to use that. That is quite expensive and in the most cases that is not needed for started projects.
Recently we’ve been using a lot of cloud hosting at work.
Scalability and reliability are probably the two biggest perks. It’s also nice that we pay for what we use (for us, it winds up being much cheaper than a dedicated host).
However, there are problems as well.
Many services -don’t- offer support beyond restarting your virtual machines for you (unless you pay an extra fee). This means if you don’t know how to run a server, it’s not a good solution for you.
The other problem is that the storage space is almost always linked to your memory usage. This means if need tons of storage, cloud hosting isn’t the greatest for you either. We have one site which has a large storage requirement and cloud hosting on it’s own isn’t a good fit for it.
Overall though, I’m definitely a fan of cloud hosting for typical websites (that have decent traffic) over dedicated hosting. However, it is also overkill for smaller sites when compared to shared hosting.
Cloud certainly offers greater reliability in the form of 100% uptime. You do not have to invest in the cluster of servers for 100% uptime when you get a cloud server. The hosting is speead across the cloud. More and more people are now switching to cloud servers due to the reliability.
Sorry, but that’s just more cloud marketing speak again (and this comes from someone who offers cloud hosting). Sure it can be more reliable, but it is not guaranteed to be so - the benefits should come in terms of time to restore i.e. your “server” dies, it should (if the provider isn’t telling fibs and just giving you a VPS like one famous name has done) be back up and running a lot quicker, in the order of a couple of minutes.
It doesn’t automatically guarantee 100% uptime, as it’s a complex system there are actually many more points of failure - even though there should be no single points of catastrophic failure if it has been designed correctly.
Cloud hosting doesn’t automatically give you load balancing over multiple servers either - sure your virtual machine can potentially run on one of any number of servers (again, as long as you’re not just being sold a VPS running on a traditional server), but it only runs on one at a time - unless you’ve got multiple and are doing your own load balancing. Or you’re paying for load balanced hosting on top of a cloud.
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Cloud Hosting is one of those fads thats being banded around a lot at hte moment, theres a lot of miss understanding with it, and a lot of false claims 
I’d not call it a fad, I think it’s here to stay and in 3 or 4 years time it’ll form the bulk of hosting, but there’s certainly a heck of a lot of mis-information, marketing junk and just plain lies and mis-use of the term at the moment. There’s a lot of people attaching the word cloud to service that are nothing of the sort, such as VPS running on stand alone hardware - so when it dies you’ve lost your data.
Oh i’m not saying it’ll just disappear, not at all… but it is being used heavily as a buzz word with a lot of people not fully understanding what they are talking about when they start about it etc
It will become more serious, no doubt, and at which point people will have more of an idea of what they are getting too - it won’t just be a new thing.
I agree it is during into a buzz word. For example, those “to the cloud!” commercials from Microsoft. Those only vaguely (if at all) relate to the cloud. And the ones that to only refer to how it’s hosting, which the ones who they advertise to couldn’t care less.
However, at the same time, cloud hosting (the real stuff, not the buzz word) is quite handy. We currently host a number of our smaller sites on the cloud. It’s handy because we can quickly roll out new servers, change their resources fairly quickly (the speed is directly proportional to the amount of data stored on the disk, if you keep it light it can take seconds to resize).
It’s also relatively cheap (not as cheap as shared hosting, but cheaper than a dedicated host).
We’ve made the cloud a part of our business workflow after a lot of research… I don’t see it going anywhere anytime soon.
It depends on your requirements. It does not make sense to invest to cloud hosting when you are only a start up. Be ready to move cloud if necessary, but in most cases simple hosting is more than enough.
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Cons:
One of the main advantages of cloud hosting is it’s scalability.
Main disadvantage is that it is too expensive for new small businesses.
Following are the advantages of cloud hosting
• You only pay for those resources which you actually need.
• It provides good scalability. You can conveniently increase or decrease resources without moving sites to other servers.
• Servers can be deployed instantly/immediately
• It provides comparatively better uptime than other types of web hosting.
• If the servers are in different datacenters, datacenter problems can be less of a concern.
• Different technologies can be used at the same platform that can not be used together without cloud hosting. For example, .php and .asp files can work on the same site, even in the same folder.
• Don’t bother to install hardware or software as the cloud that has the hardware or software you need.