What do you get when someone says "Cloud Hosting"?

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HostColor

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Hello,

The questions is in the title of this thread. What kind of technology do you think about, when someone says Cloud?

Do you think of just a VPS which is easy to scale up and down or you think of high availability, load-balancing, etc.?
 
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prince

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It's a good question because there is a big difference between a VPS and cloud hosting. Cloud hosting is where you have resources spread across a large pool of hardware, with your disk storage on a separate SAN. By using this kind of infrastructure you can achieve very high levels of resilience.
A VPS is typically a server with local disk storage that uses a linux hypervisor to split the machine into several virtual machines. It's a world away from a enterprise cloud hosting environment.
 
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ishie

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Cloud hosting, also known as cloud web hosting, is backed by large clouds of computing devices or a cluster of servers, supplies hosting resources. With a cloud host, you only pay what you use and never have to worry about how this cloud stuff is accomplished in the back stage.
 
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