Types of hosting solutions existing for the website resources

Enterprises after getting into the Information technology world, mostly engaged in using and managing their databases ( both public and confidential ), enterprise resource planning, websites, applications, softwares, mobile applications in servers. Otherwise, it means enterprises host their resources in servers. There are two kinds of hosting on servers be known to the enterprises which is traditional hosting and cloud hosting.

Traditional hosting is known to hosting of resources on servers located at a fixed location or geography. This method is traditional as this kind of hosting is into the trend, since, we know to share our online resources. Enterprises from medium to large who can afford to purchase servers have their own online resource like information and data management on premise. They are of three kind which are dedicated, shared and on premise. Servers or data centers are owned by a third party company. Dedicated hosting can be done because of the dedicated server space for the resources. It ensures maximum security and dedicated service to the enterprise. On premise means fully owned servers which would be managed by IT department. Shared hosting means that the resources shall be hosted with other client’s resources in the same server. This kind of hosting compromise on the security to some level. Co location hosting companies are Godaddy, Bluehost, Hostgator, etc.

Next trend hosting is called as managed Cloud hosting. It achieve the same objective as the traditional hosting. The difference is that hosting all resources on a third party server infrastructure. Billing has to be done on pay as you use model. Cloud hosting is very flexible and dynamic in its computing capacity, storage, load balancing, bandwidth, etc. It automatically manages any requirement or any scaling up requirements without any staff to manage. Charges are based on the usage. There are four types of Cloud Infrastructures and they are private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and Government cloud. Private Cloud hosting is managed by companies who are vulnerable to data threats. Companies into financial, healthcare segments will be much interested into Private Cloud. Cloud will be privately managed by the enterprise. Public cloud hosting is managed by any company who just need to host their public data in Cloud. Pricing is the lowest for using public cloud. Server hosts data from multiple companies whereas private cloud is dedicated to a single company’s resources. Hybrid Cloud is nothing, but, the combination feature of both public and private clouds. Enterprises can transfer data usage between private and public cloud. They can use non important data in public cloud infrastructure and confidential data in private cloud infrastructure. This combined feature is known as Hybrid Cloud. Government cloud is the dedicated infrastructure made for government agencies. The server infrastructure has to be present in less than 50 km from the agency. Government cloud keeps the data extremely secure and confidential. Cloud hosting services companies are Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace, IBM SoftLayer etc.

After, finding a wide variety of Cloud hosting solutions, there, is not much scope for bad decision making in empowering the IT department. We can easily compare and study the review for these service providers to get the best match for enterprises data center solution.

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