Hi im new to Yahoo answers and new to web design and hosting, Im learning web design at the moment and I would like to know the differences between cloud hosting and normal hosting to suit my needs. Also if you could through in some ideas on web hosting prices and sizes it would be much appreciated. Thanks for any answers in advance.
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Firstly, "cloud computing" is a vague term created by marketing as a set of features, and diluted by sales people pushing services when applications aren’t obvious to their customers. I will assume we’re mainly discussing elastic computing and any technologies necessary to implement that, like hypervisors and distrubuted storage.
Elastic computing is a tool to scale your computer power up and down as needed. It’s related to time-share, but instead of one large mainframe to rent server time on, you’re given a large cloud of servers to rent or share. You can script the start and closing of additional nodes, to match your use of the cloud to demand for the services those nodes offer.
The important distinction between elastic compute clouds and normal hosting is provisioning. Imagine you run a website that publishes football scores, and you’re very popular. To make a profit you need to keep the website responsive under heavy load. We’re talking Superbowl heavy load. Constant refreshes and sustained traffic for hours. In order to meet that goal, you could buy a massive server farm that can handle Superbowl traffic, and let them sit mostly idle during the off-season. Or you could buy server time from an elastic compute cloud to make up the difference. Normal hosting services may choose to simply fail during high load, with catastrophic effects on your Superbowl revenue. They may even kick you off for too much CPU use or network traffic.
Economically, cloud computing allows for full employment of servers. Rather than have everyone buy lots of beefy hardware in case of Slashdot, the hardware that would serve Slashdotters can migrate to the sites that need it (and pay for it). Combined with economies of scale, we can expect that large compute farms may become cheaper than hosted or colocated solutions. If APIs are created to migrate servers between clouds, additional competitive forces may help drive prices towards marginal costs; hence the chasm between Amazon and the Cloud Computing Bill of Rights. Some are proposing a cloud marketplace, where cloud computing is bought and sold by principles of supply and demand. This would encourage people to shift compute power to off peak hours, as we see with cell phone plans and industrial use of electricity.
The reasons to stay away from cloud computing are twofold: price, and privacy. None of the above guarantees cloud computing will be cheaper than your current solution. You may be fine with failure during Superbowl events. Or it may be cheaper for you to build and buy your own servers and datacenter. Alternatively, you may have data you would prefer not reside in the hands of anonymous cloud vendors whose security and technology may leak information about your service or your customers. The last part means you may in fact be legally impaired from implementing cloud computing, as the cloud vendor has access to your disk and RAM.
For example, Boldhosts http://www.boldhosts.com/ has both cloud and normal hosting. They are using cloudlinux operating system which makes them to provide dedicated environment within shared environment to clients. Such operating system enables your sites to run faster and if any of your fellow client in shared environment is consuming resources it would make their site slow not yours. With the operating system cloudlinux they are using litespeed web server which enables your website to run 900 times faster, so you can say that their hosting is one of the fastest in this world. They accept 10 payment gateways that include Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, WebMoney, AlertPay, Money Bookers, Perfect Money, Western Union etc
Well, "normal" hosting is usually shared hosting. This means you share the same web server with a lot of other clients. If one website uses too much server resources it can affect the performance of the other websites.
With cloud hosting you typically get allocated server resources. Therefore no other website should be able to affect the performance of your site. In addition your account is no longer on a single web server but on a server cluster. Therefore, upgrading your account is easy: If you need more server resources, the web host can simply allocate more to your account.
For examples check out E2 web hosting. They offer great hosting for a very affordable price.
Shared web hosting starts at about $5 a month. Cloud hosting starts at $40. If you are able to manage your server yourself, you can get unmanaged cloud hosting for as low as $12.50.
Here’s a link to check them out: http://www.unlimband.com/webhost/e2.php
I host most of my sites with them and I’m very satisfied with their service.
Hope this helps.
CLOUD HOSTING
A cloud-hosted website is opearting on multiple connected 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.
NORMAL HOSTING
Web hosting is when all the contents of a businesses’ website, all the images, articles, web pages, are placed in a central computer or server. A server is a very powerful computer which can have one or more hard drives with a very large capacity. Web hosting can easily be pictured this way: the website is similar to an office or apartment that is part of a building, or in the website’s case, the server.