Switching From Traditional Shared Hosting to Shared Cloud
“Cloud”, since the time of its development, has undergone a number of advancements, from just a scalable product to a revolutionary concept that is awaiting to change the way of traditional computing. Today, number web hosting UK providers have managed to offer customers with offering Cloud solutions over a shared platform and termed it as “Shared Cloud”
Shared Cloud as a Hosting Solution
Shared Cloud Hosting is a product similar to other web hosting solutions which is designed with an intention of keeping downtime for emails and websites to the least levels. These solutions are an ideal offerings for businesses or even consumers with personal sites who expect a high level of uptime but do not intend to spend on large IT equipments such as load-balanced servers. A shared cloud can be an ideal choice for websites that aren’t that busy and require an upgrade of hardware resources from time to time. Yet wish to have an access to the enterprise level service and uptime.
Moreover, one of the major risks with a traditional shared platform is the probability of hardware malfunction or failures. Wherein hardware crashes and unresponsive servers are some common scenarios with the usual shared hosting solution. But with a Shared Cloud, since these accounts are setup on a cluster of servers, you are completely secured from all such disasters. The entire architecture is setup using a hardware virtualization technology, and in the event of hardware failure, the accounts created on a particular server in the cluster is moved over automatically to the other servers in the cluster, hence causing zero downtime to websites.
Any user over a traditional shared platform can adversely affect the stability of the entire server, hence disrupting the services of other users hosted on it. This usually happens due to a high usage of resources called as spikes. But with a Shared Cloud, the resources of all the servers in the cluster are shared and clubbed together as one, making available a large pool of resources that can be used as per the requirements. Such an architecture reduces the risks of limited resource availability to a large extent. Moreover, this solution holds all the capabilities of traditional shared hosting solutions.
