Lets take a look at some of the benefits of cloud hosting…
Scalable: When you host something on the cloud, you will hear the word “scalable” often. The reason we call the cloud scalable is because you don’t have to depend on running out of hardware, you can simply add more, or just resize your instance and get more juice from the cloud as you see fit.
Increased Reliability: Cloud hosting is more reliable than shared, reason is, it’s a clustered network and everything is interconnected, if 1 server goes down, the others will compensate for the power loss.
Infinite Performance: The sky is the limit with performance on the cloud. On a usual dedicated server, you are limited to its resources, and to upgrade you have to take the server down. On the cloud this is not the case, you pay for what you use, and if you need more you simply resize, resizing is quick and causes very to little downtime.
Energy Efficiency: Now with cloud processors are more modern and energy efficient. Using cloud hosting means you are going green, we host all of our cloud servers in a Tier 4 data center, which is powered by 30% wind technology. Our processors are energy efficient and we have reduced our power consumption consistently in the last 24 months.
Think of a “cloud” as a giant server with unlimited capacity. In a shared hosting environment when all your small accounts have outgrown that 1 dedicated server, you have to take the server down and upgrade it, and in some cases move some accounts to another dedicated server, in a cloud environment, you can simply do what we call a “live swap”, that means while the “cloud” or server are all online and serving websites, you simply add one more server to the complete cluster.
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