What is Cloud Hosting and How it can Save you Money

I just moved our servers across to a cloud hosting environment with VPS.net and the performance of our sites went through the roof. Granted our old shared hosting environment was pretty slow.

With cloud hosting, you buy nodes of computing capacity in the cloud. The cloud being a large mass of computing power and you just buy what you need. If you get a huge spike in your traffic, you can easily buy a bit more of the cloud and when the spike finishes, you return to your old capacity. VPS.net also gives you great statistics on how much of the cloud you are using so you can easily work out if you have too little capacity or too much.

I found the setup of the servers a bit daunting, so I bought a Managed Support service with VPS.net and they set up the server, transferred all the data and databases and optimised the server setup for Wordpress. I only had a couple of simple jobs to do.

The cost is a negligible if you are running a business and the internet is a component of that business. My cloud hosting service is much cheaper than a dedicated server option.

If you are wondering about what is cloud computing, I found this video explains it pretty well.

Got any questions, I will try to answer them. Leave your comments and questions below.