Is My Website In The Cloud?

Cloud hosting provides the flexibility and security that dedicated, shared or VPS hosting cannot

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Host 1:                                  00:00                     Podcasting from Southern California, this is On The Net, your go-to for everything you need to know about how to get your business online and keep it there—brought to you by Lunarpages.  We’ll help you navigate the mystifying ins and outs of doing business in today’s digital era.  From web hosting to ecommerce to security and protection, if it has to do with your online presence, we’ve got it covered. Let’s get started.

Host 2:                                  00:30                     Hello everyone. Welcome to On the Net where it’s all about your online presence. Thanks for joining us. This podcast is designed to make doing business online, easy for web designers, developers, bloggers, and online business of every shape and size. Whether you are new to buying web hosting or running a website, this podcast show will be able to answer your most burning questions. Last week we talked about dedicated and shared hosting. Today let’s explore cloud hosting. Whether you have a small static brochure website, a dynamic site with more user engagement, or running an ecommerce site, integrated with a payment gateway, you need a place to house your site. All data on the Internet needs to be stored on a physical hard drive or server for easy access by anyone online. That is where hosting providers like us come in with exciting hosting plans and services. In our previous podcast, you have already been acquainted with terms such as shared hosting and dedicated servers, but they aren’t the only game in the web hosting town.

Host 2:                                  01:35                     One of the most popular and viable options for websites and web applications is cloud hosting. Confused? Not to worry. In today’s episode, Is My Website In the Cloud, we’re going to unravel the mysteries of cloud hosting. Cloud hosting is essentially the creation and consolidation of server clusters usually made up a virtual computers. Your website or application does not run on just a traditional single server. Instead, the work is spread among multiple computers and that data is accessed via a network connection like the Internet. Hosting on the cloud involves a network of physical servers, frequently situated in multiple locations with virtualized servers running on top of them so that your organization always has a near infinite supply of server resources and you can scale your site according to your needs. With cloud hosting, there is no need to build and maintain expensive computing infrastructure in house.

Host 2:                                  02:33                     That alone may be enough to convince you of the benefits of cloud hosting, but let’s continue to look at some of the other reasons you may want to choose cloud hosting over other alternatives. The division of data across a number of places ensures that the integrity of your data is never compromised and you do not ever lose data. If one server in the cloud crashes,