Select the perfect resources and applications for your cloud hosting plan. Make informed decisions to optimize your cloud infrastructure for maximum performance. Web hosting is one of the primary and most important considerations for the success of your digital presence. As more and more businesses go online, the need for varied hosting types is also on the rise. Among the list of popular web hosting platforms, moving to the Cloud has become the mantra for websites today. Cloud Hosting is toute to be the future of hosting as it helps tackle the growing issues of cyberattacks with its redundant architecture.
What is Cloud Hosting?
Cloud Hosting is a method of website hosting where the data of a website is store across multiple servers rather than a single server. In traditional hosting, of any sort, all website data is store on a single server.
This basic architectural difference in the data storage method lends several advantages to Cloud Hosting, including, redundancy, reliability, and performance.
What are the resources that your website will need?
- Bandwidth
The term bandwidth comprises two individual factors speed and time. The size of computing communication is measure in bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and so on. Speed is measure in seconds. The term bandwidth refers to the amount of data that a server is able to transfer in a second. So, a bandwidth of 100Mbps means that the server can transfer 100 megabytes of data in a second.
In website hosting, the transfer of data happens from your web server to the user’s browser. Hosting companies broadly offer three kinds of bandwidth plans metered, unmetered, and unlimited.
Metered connections work like a home broadband plan. Let’s say your bandwidth is 100Mbps and your bandwidth cap is 100GB. Your website will transfer data to your users at 100Mbps till you consume all the 100GB. When you’ve exhausted your allotte bandwidth, you’ll either be charge extra for the extra data that you use. Or your website will stop working. This depends on your hosting company. Meter connections are usually not recommend, especially for growing and dynamic websites.
Unmetered connections are consider to be the best as they do not have a cap on the usage. An unmetered connection will give you a bandwidth speed, say 100Mbps. You can transfer as much data as you want at the speed for which you’re paying.
Unlimited bandwidth is just a metered bandwidth plan with a higher ceiling. So, instead of a ceiling of 100GB, it might be 300GB. However, it is market as unlimited, as most smaller websites never reach the limit. But, if you have a dynamic website and your traffic goes up suddenly, you might cross the upper ceiling and your website might stop working. The details of the upper limit are included in the fineprint. Make sure to go through the details before settling for an unlimited plan.
- RAM
Web hosting companies have loads of historical data on how much RAM a website typically needs. So, you’ll mostly get adequate RAM with hosting plans.
That being said, the highlights are that a CMS needs at least half a GB of RAM to function properly. Other programs and apps will need RAM too. Complex websites need loads of RAM and finally, if you’ve got lots of traffic, you need more RAM.
The bottom line is that you need at least 2GB RAM if you’re using any CMS. Anything less than that and website performance will suffer.
- Storage
It’s simple to figure out how much storage you need. General rule text is light and requires little storage. Video, animations, and pictures need more storage. Similar to bandwidth, you can opt for an unmetered disk space setup if you are not able to gauge the storage requirements for your website – especially if you have a new website.
- CPU cores
Small websites with little content need fewer CPU cores. High traffic dynamic websites need more CPU cores to process instructions faster. If you’re starting a new website, chances are you’ll have little content and traffic. So, start off with 2 CPU cores. As your traffic increases, you can increase the core count.
Applications needed for a Cloud Hosting plan
- C-Panel
This is perhaps the most important application for a Cloud Hosting plan. cPanel is a hosting and website management tool that helps you maintain your website from a central dashboard. You can pay for your hosting plan, upgrade your plan, add resources, remove resources, contact customer support, and access the active and helpful forum all from a single application.
cPanel is built to be easy to use even if you have no hosting experience in Linux hosting, making it an absolutely vital application.
- SiteLock
Cloud Hosting is a secure way to host a website and redundancy is actually built into the design of Cloud Hosting. However, cyber-attacks are on the rise and you should be doing everything you can to protect your website. SiteLock Security helps you do that.
What is SiteLock? In short, it is a website protection tool that was specifically built for websites run by small and medium-size businesses. It’s a comprehensive cloud-base security program that can scan for malware, remove malware, scan and remove virus, and notifies you of any vulnerabilities in your network.
What makes SiteLock particularly great is the fact that it scans your website daily. It’s call a ‘360° scan’ and thoroughly checks your website for any vulnerabilities every day.
- CodeGuard
Redundancy of data and advanced data security is one of the most important reasons for the popularity of Cloud Hosting. Data is store in multiple places. However, backups created by a hosting company aren’t legally binding, meaning that if you lose your data, you cannot hold the hosting company responsible.
The best solution is to simply use a software that will automatically backup your website on a regular basis. CodeGuard Website Backup does just that. It creates a snapshot of your website when you install it and updates it every day all without any human intervention. This means that the backup of your website is never more than a day old.
CodeGuard stores data on Amazon servers with 256-bit encryption, making it completely secure. Finally, it also has an easy data recovery tool so that in case you do need to use the backup, it’s easy to do that.
Conclusion
Cloud Hosting is getting popular by the day, thanks to its infrastructure, redundancy, and reliability. So, if you’re looking to get a hosting plan to start a new website or to migrate your existing website, Cloud Hosting might be the perfect hosting solution for you.
Webzworld India offers fully managed Cloud Hosting plans with reliable, fast, and secure services. Get unmeter disk space (storage), Solid State Drives, unmetered bandwidth, free cPanel and one-click scalability. We also offer CodeGuard and SiteLock plans on our website, and help you with seamless integration with your Cloud Hosting plans.
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