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How Does A Cloud Work?

Internet has become a vital part of our lives, be it personal or business related. Not only has it served as an unlimited information portal, but has also served as a motivation for technological advancements. The latest to come up is Cloud Hosting in the web hosting industry and it’s certainly a revolution.

But despite knowing all the terms associated to Cloud Hosting, there is always one thing on the user’s mind - How does this Cloud work?

Here’s a comprehensive look at the answer for that question, hoping it will serve the purpose:

What Is Cloud?

Cloud is just another term for the ‘internet’. With advancements in technology, Cloud is a trending term used to describe the software and other services that are offered via the Internet.

Cloud is an unconventional server that executes the functionalities as any other server without having the need to keep hardware and maintain it. When you get your website hosted, the servers connected in the clouding environment act like a large storage space to store all your website’s web logs and files.

Is The Cloud The Same As The Internet?

The Cloud is a term that is often taken synonymously with the Internet; but there is a marked difference between the two. The Cloud refers to that one specific part of the Internet that is used to store the web content and web logs of a website.

The infrastructure of these hosting plans are backed up by the Internet and hence the pricing of the data storage has decreased; but the bandwidth speeds have increased.

How does the sharing work?

The power distribution and storage capacity offered in total by all the servers connected under the cloud networking environment can be scaled up or down depending upon the customer’s website’s needs to run efficiently; this is because these resources are controlled by a software that is being run on a system at all times monitored by the server admin.

The server admin monitors the CPU load at all times to deduce information that will help the provider optimize the machines in the cloud to improve their storage efficiency and make sure the data back ups aer on times. This also ensures that there is optimum energy utilization.

The cost of hardware automatically cuts down as it is served by a third party. With efficient Internet speed and an alluring pricing, cloud hosting is on the rise.

Here are a few web apps that run on Cloud computing; emphasizing the fact that more and more developers are moving onto this technological advancement:

Dropbox.

The days of using USB drives to store and share data, are gone. Dropbox is currently the most trending service in the business of sharing data without using any actual hardware. With the ease of installation, it works well as a network drive connected to personal devices/ servers; offering storage spaces ranging from 2GB to almost any amount that you are willing to pay for.

Google Docs.

The free web app is certainly the most popular open source protocol for professional documenting and editing. It not only supports HTML, PDF, RTF, Ms Word and other files, it gives you the ability to edit them and has a built in functionality for uploading them as well. The highlight of Google Docs is its auto save feature that makes sure you never lose out on your data. .

These web applications surely give us a clear idea of the scope of cloud hosting and if you need anymore reasons to get your website hosted on the Cloud, we suggest you take a look at all those customer reviews and user experiences that might just compel you to switch to Clouding.