Like any other technology, the concept of web hosting has evolved and the future lies in the redoubtable, multi serve “cloud hosting”. Cloud hosting cancels the drawbacks of web hosting and allows the website to draw on the immense resources of the Cloud anytime, thereby removing the annoyance of slow loading of pages and downtime.

The essence of the cloud can be understood by a simple illustration. If there is a data center with thousands of high specification web servers operating simultaneously and sharing resources thereby creating a giant ‘super server’, then this condition is the cloud. However the concept is complex and cannot be explained merely as a synchronized networking of servers. The efficiency of the cloud is striking and it scores over the traditional hosting methods such as shared hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated server hosting by providing cent per cent uptime.

Pre-requisite of resources needed for web hosting tend to vary when one uses the cloud concept. According to recent stress testing of the cloud hosting concept, it has been found that even when over 100,000 visitors are online at the same time at a database-related website, there is no report of site failure. This achievement can be explained by the fact that the cloud can produce load balancing by assigning adequate and sometimes additional resources to meet the site requirements. This makes cloud an outstanding hosting platform with efficiency that is practically impossible to improve upon.

Thus to understand the concept of the cloud one has to imagine a huge data center with servers linked to one another with perfectly balanced load resulting in each performing to its maximum potential. Using Total Web Development’s cloud hosting technology to host a website one can avail the combined resources of all these servers in sync and the network is also fast and consistent.

When one opts for web hosting with a company, the website is placed on the web server which acts like a regular PC at home or office that comes with a hard drive, processor and memory. Now that the server has these same resources they are used to serve the web pages of the website. When the resources run low or get stressed due to overuse, the web pages result in slowing down while loading and sometimes even the website disappears.

All these disadvantages have resulted in traditional web hosting concept to become old and outmoded in a world where technological advancement is always on a fast track and the complex “WEB 2.0” applications have become the solution. Nowadays with more blogging, creation of discussion forums etc web traffic has increased drastically which have often made servers overtaxed and slow. The cloud hosting technology is the answer that uses more resources from the cloud to serve the website and solves the problem.

This new technology has been put on severe testing situations to bring out its advantage over existing web hosting techniques. The trials, called stress testing, have connected a website with 100,000 simultaneous links using a simulation of over 100,000 users using the site at the same time. Even in this extreme condition, the online website has been found to perform normally without showing any sign of overtaxing, slowing down or failure as the cloud sets apart enough resources to deal with any amount of pressure caused by web traffic.

Cloud hosting thus is an application of advanced technology made simple. Regardless of the nature and complexity of the applications loaded on the cloud, the technology efficiently uses the system of clustered processing, load balancing and flexible storage to serve all the uploaded applications to the networking computers without failing.

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