Cloud Computing/Hosting, according to a dictionary means, the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Simply, anything as a Service can be considered as an example of Cloud Computing.
Cloud Computing is NOT at all new, its just as nobody has explained or guided us since our childhood that “This is an example of Cloud Computing”. The ancient example is “POWER”. You may wonder, How and Why ?! Here, in case of Power, Manufacturers are different power companies which produces power and give it away to Transmission and Distribution companies. Using very huge network of their infrastructure they are giving it to consumers like people and companies as well.
We as consumer just using it for our purposes. Be it for Manufacturing Activity or To run washing machine to wash clothes or to run a Power motor on a bore well to fetch water. Due to perishable nature of “Power” it has to be transmitted as soon as manufactured. Otherwise, Transmission and Distribution companies or Power Manufacturing companies may be in great loss.
Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources (Hardware, Software, Network etc) and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a public utility.
In August 2006, Amazon introduced its Elastic Compute Cloud. In April 2008, Google released Google App Engine. Hence, GOOGLE and AMAZON are the PIONEER for Cloud Computing. Rest others like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM etc have joined the race very late as if they felt to left behind.
Cloud Computing relied on service-oriented architecture, which advocates "everything as a service" (with the acronyms EaaS or XaaS, or simply aas), cloud-computing providers offer their "services" according to different models, of which the three standard models per NIST are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). These models offer increasing abstraction; they are thus often portrayed as a layers in a stack: infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service, but these need not be related. For example, one can provide SaaS implemented on physical machines (bare metal), without using underlying PaaS or IaaS layers, and conversely one can run a program on IaaS and access it directly, without wrapping it as SaaS.
According to deployment models there are following concepts of Cloud Computing.
Cloud computing poses privacy concerns because the service provider can access the data that is in the cloud at any time. It could accidentally or deliberately alter or even delete information. Many cloud providers can share information with third parties if necessary for purposes of law and order even without a warrant. That is permitted in their privacy policies, which users must agree to before they start using cloud services. Solutions to privacy include policy and legislation as well as end users' choices for how data is stored. Users can encrypt data that is processed or stored within the cloud to prevent unauthorized access.
Find herewith Google’s G-Suite Security White Paper.
Cloud hosting describes a method of configuring servers in a flexible way to allow for the most affordable, scalable, and reliable web infrastructure.
(Or at least it should be!) Our cloud servers launch in under one minute. This lets you focus on delivering content instead of server setup. An intuitive user interface makes controlling servers quick and easy — securing data, resizing servers, and creating new servers takes only a few clicks.
Cloud hosting only charges people for the resources they use. Hosting costs are measured per hour to provide the most control over the hosting budget. Additionally, DigitalOcean offers affordable bandwidth pricing, ensuring that sudden traffic spikes do not drive up the monthly bill.
Cloud servers scale with incredible speed. You can expand or reduce servers in seconds to ensure that the server keeps up with demand without wasting money on unnecessary resources. Adding new servers or upgrading current offerings is a click away — no complicated architecture required.
Cloud hosting is more reliable than shared hosting, where issues in one account may spill over into other sites on the same physical server. Cloud hosting isolates each server, ensuring that possible stress on one does not affect another server's performance.
Cloud hosting lets you customize your server. When spinning up a cloud server, you can specify the server's processing power, location, and operating system, as well as configure the server itself to present your content in the best possible way.
Cloud hosting keeps your content safe. By distributing server data across redundant servers, information hosted in the cloud is protected against hardware failure. Automated backups and snapshots ensure that server content stays safe and up-to-date.
Based on your Choice and Preference, we can be able to provide / deliver, Bare Metal Servers or Virtual Servers, Storage Servers, Processing Servers or machines etc hence you need to be clear with your needs and wants as well as objective of Cloud Hosting that what is that you are going to achieve with such kind of Cloud Hosting of Server or Machine.
