If you want to do business on the Internet, you need Web hosting, i.e. space on a Web server connected to the Internet to which you can upload your product catalogue and other materials. To meet the needs of these Internet businesspersons, a completely new kind of service business, the Web hosting business, has emerged. Web hosts locate server hardware inside highly secure premises and organize dependable Internet connectivity, constant power supply and other requirements to host the websites of the Internet businesspersons.
Even this preliminary outline would have given you an idea about the complexity of Web hosting, such as the need for secure premises where unauthorized persons cannot enter, and fail-proof Internet connectivity and power supply. Actually, many other requirements need to be met before Web hosts can provide their clients with the kind of service that the clients have come to expect, such as 99.9% up time for their website, safety from on-line attacks on the sites and guarantee against loss of data stored on the Web servers.
It follows that Web hosting is not a simple business. Instead it is a business that requires substantial funds and qualified and experienced technicians. “Cheapest” Web hosting offers become suspect in such a context as it can involve cutting corners with consequent problems for the websites hosted on the servers.
On the other hand, Web hosts who have the latest equipment and software, and have also taken care to attend to all the requirements, will be able to offer affordable Web hosting. Latest Web servers offer such capabilities as virtualization, redundancy and failover technologies. In simple English, these capabilities mean the ability to offer more storage space at lower costs, to restore any damaged client data and to move the data to other servers if the existing server shows signs of failing.
Cloud Web hosting incorporates all the above, viz. virtualization, redundancy and failover capabilities.
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