Cloud hosting: a solution adapted to large-scale projects

The cloud has been a real technological innovation in recent years. It allows businesses to have a completely virtual web storage architecture. Cloud hosting is therefore an economical, scalable and efficient alternative for your sites and applications requiring significant machine resources.

Cloud hosting represents a solution of choice for storing data from sites and web applications. The majority of hosts offer this type of storage, allowing the Cloud offer to develop across France and around the world. Its configuration is entirely customizable and this is what makes it particularly attractive. However, it is advisable to opt for this solution for resource-intensive projects, otherwise, shared web hosting will certainly offer more attractive value for money.

What is cloud hosting?

This web data storage service is based on a network of interconnected and virtualized servers. Unlike shared or dedicated hosting, the Cloud uses virtual storage space. The technical concept behind all this technology is therefore virtualization, with a good dose of server interconnections. The conclusion of this clever mix gives a completely scalable solution which adapts perfectly to traffic peaks by requiring more resources in the server pool.

Cloud hosting can be deployed and configured almost à la carte, by choosing the OS, resources, programming language, ultimately allowing you to adapt your space to your initial needs. Setting up this type of service is extremely simple and in a few clicks the tool can be online, however to properly target your issues, it will be important to draw up specifications for your project needs.

The benefits of cloud hosting

By studying how the Cloud works, we better understand why it has so many advantages. At the center of all this, we can note its scalability, its security and its economies of scale.

Scalability

There scalability is a new term that has appeared in IT jargon, it means the ability of a product to grow quickly according to new needs. Cloud hosting is a great example to highlight this term. If your site were to grow exponentially or your web application tripled its user base, you will need a rapid increase in the resources of your storage servers. In just a few clicks, you can make this change, thanks to the technical functioning of the Cloud. Very practical in the web world, because this scenario happens (fortunately) very often.

Security

Even if Cloud architecture is considered virtual in its storage, its security is very real. Hostinger, for example, protects all data using analysis programs, malware, firewalls and applications against DDOS attacks. Your data is also compartmentalized in your Cloud space.

Economy of scale and physical hardware

The fact that the entire (or almost) architecture is virtual allows companies to make significant economies of scale by reducing their infrastructure costs. This pooling of server resources makes it possible to drastically reduce the physical hardware required, thus lowering the price of hosting if you go through an external service provider.

On which projects should I use Cloud hosting?

E-commerce store

The first type of project concerned is the creation or development of an online store. These sites are extremely resource-intensive with numerous references, images, products, videos, applications, etc. This type of hosting will therefore be excellent for these sites. For example, during an influence or promotion campaign by other sites, this service will make it possible to absorb the increase in visitors, as far as possible.

Many personalities have notably set up online sales sites, to sell in the drop format (limited quantity). As the stock was limited and the community of these personalities was large, this created a huge demand for visits to the site over a very short period of time, the result was a server error and latencies across the entire site. Cloud hosting will thus be able to avoid this type of problem, once again depending on the peak observed, and will often be slightly more expensive and can save you tens of thousands of euros (in our example) by making your site more fluid.

Online application

In another register, but which has a similar purpose, we can also cite typical SaaS applications. Many companies develop this type of program, then deploy them on the web, thus requiring quality hosting. Depending on the functionalities of these applications, the resources requested can be significant, thus requiring efficient servers. Once online, the application welcomes its first users, and as in the case of an online store, peaks can be observed, potentially creating latencies or even unavailability of the service. To protect against this, Cloud hosting will be an excellent storage solution.

Hostinger: the Cloud solution for your hosting

Choosing the right host for your Cloud solution is essential. Among the leaders in the hosting market, Hostinger stands out for the quality of its services in terms of Cloud architecture. The Lithuanian firm has 11 locations for its servers, including one in France, thus streamlining access to your site if your audience is French. Without getting lost in numerous offers, Hostinger Cloud is made up of three main offers which will be differentiated by the performance allocated to your servers. Among the variable components, we find: SSD storage and the number of CPUs.

Customer service is another extremely positive point of the host. Available without interruptions and in many languages, Hostinger is one of the best in its category in this aspect.

Migrate your site to Cloud hosting

If you have not yet made the leap to the Cloud and intend to do so, you will certainly need to migrate your data. By going through Hostinger, the migration will be free and carried out by the hosting company’s professionals.

You will still need to carry out an assessment of your needs in order to select the plan that best suits your project. The second step will be to make a backup of all of your data, to avoid any problems during the migration. This is done in a few clicks depending on the host and/or CMS. Once completed, you can let yourself be guided by the Hostinger control panel, or wait for the migration to complete.

Feedback on Cloud hosting

Feedback on Cloud hosting is positive, demonstrating its reliability and security. However, we note that the majority of users are medium/large companies, with websites accounting for around 50,000 monthly visits, therefore projects already well advanced. What emerges from this analysis is that to take full advantage of the cloud, your site will need to be resource-intensive, if this is not the case and you are in a launch phase or on a test side project then shared hosting will be much more suitable.