Cloud Hosting HQ

As Cloud Hosting becomes more common people are bound to have questions about how it works and what the benefits of the Cloud are.

This article on Technorati looks at a few of the frequently asked questions about Cloud Hosting, including questions such as: Does cloud hosting mean that there is less security? or What is the big deal about cloud hosting? My VPS provider offers all that.

See the answer to these questions and others by taking a look at the full article. Perhaps you’ll even find the answers to some  questions you’ve never thought to ask.

Charlie Schluting’s latest article on Enterprise Networking Planet explains how and why you should migrate your e-mail to a cloud-based host:

The thought of switching a large (or even small) business’s e-mail to hosted providers like Google or Microsoft often meets with a lot of resistance. You might think security would rank as the number one concern, but in practice the big show stopper usually ends up being implementation. Moving millions of old e-mail messages and thousands of accounts is a daunting task.

Migrating all of your existing e-mail doesn’t have to be difficult. The big three providers, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, all provide many options to help alleviate the pain associated with moving an entire company’s e-mail infrastructure.

He goes on to explain how to approach migration with a good overview of the steps involved. This article is a good read for anyone considering making the migration and illustrates just why you should bring your e-mail into the cloud.

Rackspace Cloud has announced an affiliate program that will offer incentive reward for resellers and developers:

Do you like getting paid?

Today, RackSpace Cloud announced a new cloud partner program designed to bring new business to reward partners for bringing hosting to the cloud offerings with the company.

Now with the Rackspace program program, resellers can receive direct rewards in the form of percentage points on the back-end and join in the financial benefits of cloud hosting.

The full article at ReadWriteCloud explains how this program will work for affiliates. As well as breaking down what benefits it will provide and how this might influence other companies to do the same.

It seems like everyone is talking about the wonder of cloud hosting. So what is it?

Cloud Hosting?

Cloud hosting is a type of web hosting that enables your website to scale without replacing or upgrading hardware. It lets you focus on making your website great, instead of  how to keep it running.

This can happen because of “the cloud” — multiple servers linked together to form one platform. Because there are many servers instead of one, it balances the load, increases capacity, and eliminates a single point of failure.

That is, if a server’s hard drive fails, your site is unaffected, because your data is mirrored on other servers.

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