Saturday, May 11, 2013

How To Choose The Perfect Web Host For Your Site?

By Malvi Patel


The primary job you should be doing before going to clouds is, understanding the size of your business. Cloud hosting absorbs good amounts of human, technical and time resources to be spent and so decide, does your business is worth spending all these resources, apart from your core business tasks.

CLOUDS AND KINDS: The two kinds of cloud hosting are private and public cloud hosting. Private is the choice for the business which needs very high levels of security for the data and can't take risks of sharing the resources. In all the other cases public can be suggested choice, which in turn saves money.

CLOUDS & MODELS: There are three models IaaS, SaaS and PaaS which are based on Infrastructure, Software and Platform.

IaaS, is the Infrastructure-as-a-Service. As the name tells, this service is primarily for providing the infrastructure to the customers rather than the platform or the software. Eventually, the customer needs to go running the software almost independently.

SaaS, is the Software-as-a-Service: Here the service provided is the software in terms of basic computing resources. And the other responsibilities should be taken care by the customer. Matured and huge businesses like infra and platform but has more demanding advanced software applications for the timely changing tasks would basically need these services.

PaaS, is Platform-as-a-Service. The platform is availed in these services by the customer, upon which the applications are built and deployed to be hosted on the clouds. And subsequent challenge would be changing the provider in future as these run by the APIs.

RELIABILITY: The customer needs to check whether the firm equipped with the advanced technical infrastructure along with the expert teams to maintain it successfully and provide timely and reliable services.

SECURITY: Though cloud hosting boasts about the security provided by it, critics are always opposing this reminding about the higher levels of security threats too. The fact remains that the deeper analysis of identity management, access control and authorization & authentication is unavoidable.

SCALABILITY: The scalability is the major piece of hot cake tempting the customers to fly on the clouds. If the business demands flexible hosting resources changing with the time, cloud is the best solution. And the good tradeoff between the applications and money spent is important.

Best wishes to fly on to the clouds with good analysis and understanding of all the above parameters suggested.




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