For a few recent years, cloud hosting has become an incredible popular web hosting trend as well as one of the hottest topics for speculations and discussions among entrepreneurs, IT professionals and web masters. While more and more businesses from all over the Globe are implementing cloud computing and hosting, this breakthrough technology gradually changes the whole way we use IT.
Too excessive information about both advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing can make anyone’s head spin. Though there are so many surveys and researches about its concept, principles, technologies and various other aspects, some misconceptions and confusion still exist and somehow slow down the overall cloud progress embarrassing some business owners and making them doubt about joining this tendency. To make my own contribution to stopping these misconceptions and help clean the air, in the post below I try to analyze and bust top 3 cloud hosting myths circling today.
Myth # 1: Your Sensitive Data is Unsafe in Cloud
The most widespread perhaps myth is that cloud hosting has a lot of security and safety issues. Actually, this myth serves as the most powerful barrier hindering many businesses and companies from switching to cloud. This concern is fair enough, since sensitive and confidential business data is on the line. Some of the most popular arguments are that while operating on the cloud network, business data can be also shared just as resources and you never know where in the world and how far your sensitive files may wander.
In fact, in many cases cloud environments provide a higher security level than traditional on-premise data centers. Cloud providers are concerned about the security just as you, if not more, since it is one of the most crucial aspects of their overall business success. That’s why, they invest considerable expenses and apply much effort on establishing an absolutely secure and safe cloud infrastructure with layered protection by using various modern technological advancements, like web firewalls, DDoS protection systems, surveillance systems, etc.
Myth # 2: Cloud Hosting is Hard to Understand
One of the basic ideas behind cloud computing technologies is to make everything convenient, simple, easy to understand and less complicated. In essence, a cloud hosting environment presents a smartly organized cluster of multiple physical servers that can be spread over several different locations, but are invariably pulled and together to consolidate their resources and create a single massive and extremely powerful hosting infrastructure. Coupled with high-end technologies, such a structure makes the whole hosting concept pretty much more productive, effective, convenient and hassle-free.
Frankly speaking, any cloud hosting service can be similar to a VPS (virtual private server) or dedicated server plan. However, here you won’t have to rely on just a single web server or its certain partition, but rather enjoy access to a series of servers and storage spaces operating together to meet any needs and requirements of every particular user in full at any given moment.
Myth # 3: Cloud Hosting Cost is Affordable Only For Enterprise-Level Online Ventures
One more very strong and rather influential myth about cloud is its high cost. The fact that large companies and businesses were the first ones to switch to cloud web hosting on a massive scale created the misconception that such solutions are rather costly and can’t be affordable for small and mid-sized ventures. Luckily, this has nothing to do with reality. Moreover, cloud hosting services can be even more beneficial for businesses on a tight budget in terms of cost-efficiency, if compared to traditional hosting models.
While all essential resources (storage space, processing power, CPU, RAM, bandwidth, etc.) in the cloud-based network are allocated on-demand in accordance with current requirements of every single user, you don’t have to pay for excessive or unused resources. Furthermore, cloud hosting is especially perfect in providing efficiency on scale. Whenever your business website faces spikes in demand for server resources, the cloud cluster ensures agile provision of all necessary resources.
In such a way, cloud hosting has never been a priority for large businesses only. Virtually any online venture, even start-ups can enjoy advantages and benefits of this progressive web hosting technology.
Perhaps, there are some other strong cloud hosting myths you are aware of. Feel free to share them in the comments below.
Greg Rockwood is a marketing and product manager at Softsys Hosting, an established hosting provider, offering a comprehensive choice of reliable and affordable SSD windows VPS hosting services and KWM-based Linux VPS servers.
