Cloud vs traditional web hosting
Netregistry's CEO Larry Bloch explains the difference between cloud and traditional web hosting - and why Netregistry's cloud web hosting infrastructure is more reliable.
Video Transcript
If you've read any technology article in recent times I'm sure you've come across the concept of cloud. Cloud hosting, cloud accounting, cloud software, cloud computing.
How is cloud hosting different from traditional hosting? I'm sure most people are familiar with regular hosting where you provide your website to a hosting company and they host that website for you so its available online to your customers.
How is cloud hosting different? Well with traditional hosting your website is hosted on a single server on the internet, that means your website and lots of other peoples websites are all sitting on one physical computer on the internet.
Why is that good? Well it means the cost of the service provided to you is reduced because lots of people are sharing that computing resource.
Why is it bad? Well its bad because if 1 other person on that server happens to have a wildly popular website the performance of the overall server can degrade affecting your website as well.
So how does cloud hosting improve on this situation or resolve the situation. Well with cloud hosting your website is hosted on a single server along with a whole lot of other peoples websites. Your website and all other customers of that particular cloud hosting company are hosted on multiple different servers all at the same time.
So, there might be 20 different web servers, physical computers and on each of those 20 web servers all websites hosted by that company are available. Effectively what that means is that a greater degree of scalability, robustness and reliability for your website when its hosted in a cloud infrastructure as opposed to a traditional infrastructure.
