Cloud Hosting Offers Better Reliability and Disaster Recovery Solutions
Public cloud computing or cloud hosting refers to a computing model in which cloud services are provided to a professional user or an organization in a virtualised environment making use of a large number of physical servers spread across varied geographical locations. This virtualised environment is created by bringing together a large number of physical servers stored in data centres of third party service providers. In this type of cloud computing model, the services and resources are made accessible to the account holders though a public network—generally Internet.
On the contrary, in case of private cloud hosting all the underlying physical resources are concentrated at a single place with only one organization having full rights over it.
Cloud hosting services basically employ three distinct infrastructure models. They are mentioned as following:
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
IaaS is one of three main categories of cloud hosting services, alongside Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).Infrastructure as a service is a type of cloud computing model that delivers virtualised computer resources on an outsourced basis over the Internet. In other words, a third party service provider hosts hardware, software, servers, storage and other components along with system maintenance, backup, etc for its clients for a certain fee. The biggest advantage offered by IaaS is higher levels of scalability as resources can be adjusted on demand.
Platform as a service (PaaS)
PaaS is a computing platform that allows for the easy creations of web applications without having to buy and maintain the expensive and complex hardware and software that are required for the creation of those web applications. The service provider delivers hardware and software tools necessary for application development. It hosts the hardware and software on its own infrastructure thus freeing the users from having to buy their own hardware and software.
Software as a service (SaaS)
SaaS is another important component of public cloud hosting. It is a service that is deployed over the internet by the service provider who either offers it as ‘pay as you go’ model or in some cases even for free if it finds another way by which the additional revenue can be generated.
Advantages of public cloud server hosting
Ultimate scalability—as mentioned above a public cloud model brings together a large number of physical servers together and their resources are pooled. This facilitates availability of cloud resources ‘on-demand’ basis from public clouds vast pool of resources. Organizations can demand resources and get it easily to efficiently handle extra traffic.
Utility style costing—public cloud hosting offers utility style costing. It delivers a pay-as-you-go model, where you pay by the hour for the computational resources you use. It is similar to using electricity and water where you pay only for the units you have consumed.
Higher degree of reliability
Additional levels of reliability provided by public cloud model is another important factor that has contributed to its rising popularity in a major way. The sheer number of networks and servers that constitute a cloud and the redundancy configurations work in tandem to eliminate the ill-effects of a malfunctioning server.
Cloud service provided by a reliable cloud hosting provider in India is reliable as extra servers are always available to make up for the loss of resources that the now- defunct server was providing. There is no one single point of failure and the cloud service runs unaffected in absence of some servers or components.
Online backup and disaster recovery
Data and information generated in course of normal business operation is the lifeline of any modern organization. With cloud based services, you always have a backup, no matter what happens in your own organization or data centre. All important data are automatically stored on the remote server of service providers. Any catastrophic events and disasters will not hamper your business continuity as all your critical data can be restored with a simple click of a mouse button and an internet connection.
Go4Hosting is one of the most trusted and reliable provider of cloud hosting services in India. Its tailor made and performance driven cloud services provided through multi-redundant data centres and state of the art technology ensures exceptionally high levels of uptime and robust disaster mechanisms for your critical data.
