Overview

When a company opts for cloud computing, the only assurance one can get in terms of reliability and service is the vendor’s reputation and track record. The reason for this is that players in this sector of web hosting, including the industry favorite, Salesforce.com Inc., don’t offer their clients an official Service Level Agreements (SLA). Cloud computing clients go through anxious episodes in the light of the recent spate of outages, including hours-long ones of market leaders Amazon.com Inc. and Google’s Gmail.

An Overview

You may have already heard of cloud computing; but the question is, do you really know what it means? Google Docs and Apple’s MobileMe are just some of the popular examples of this concept. Another innovation has entered the picture – cloud hosting.

Basically a website hosted on clustered servers where online operations are not concentrated to a single server. Security, load balance and hardware resource are handled in a virtual environment. Your website has access to the processing power not only of one server but a cluster of servers that are distributed in real time.