Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [cloud-hosting]

Cloud hosting is hosting a service, commonly a website, on multiple distributed servers. Like a server farm, this provides greater performance (through load balancing) and availability than using a single server, but the distributed nature of the cloud means requests can be serviced closer to the client and makes it more tolerant of network failures.

Benefits of cloud hosting

Cloud hosting benefits the users from various angles. Scalability and cost efficiency are the commonly known advantages.

As the technology is highly scalable (load balancing, hardware upgrades, etc), website expansion can be done with minimum limitations. Think about the hassle of migrating your website from a shared server to a dedicated server; think about server crash when your website experienced a sudden surge – all these problem can be avoided easily by switching to cloud hosting.

Cost is another huge plus if you need a lot of processing power. Cloud hosting companies charge their users based on the quantity of computing power consumed. It’s like your electricity and water supply bills – it’s pay-per-use thus gone are the days where you need to reserve massive server powers to avoid website crash from sudden traffic surge.

Major disadvantage with cloud hosting: Security

Questions like these arise when it comes to cloud hosting:

  • I am sharing the same physical hardware with other users, is my data safe?
  • Where is my data located at? (You no longer control the physical location of your data in cloud hosting)

The security issue is always one of the major questions and arguments raised when it comes to cloud hosting.

Compiled and edited from WebHostingSecretsRevealed.com

405 questions
3
votes
2 answers

Can I host my front end in one hosting service and the backend somewhere else?

I have a website hosted in justhost.com. So far it is only HTML/CSS/JS done all from scratch. Recently I have been learning about Server Side Java Script (SSJS) using nodejs and I would like to add some JS backend processing to my site. The problem…
Saul Lugo
  • 51
  • 3
3
votes
1 answer

C# .NET Multi Server or Cloud Structure

I have a social network that is growing big, but lots of features are using the 'HttpContex.Current.Cache' class to reutilize the data without the need to go to the data base on every request. I know the 'HttpContext.Current.Cache' is 'static' so I…
rpmlins
  • 135
  • 2
  • 9
3
votes
1 answer

Using NodeJS and RavenDB in the cloud (appharbor)

I have written an application in nodejs/ravendb using node-ravendb (https://github.com/mattdaly/node-ravendb). Now I want to find good hosting for it and i realize that I don't have much to choose from. The only cloud-based hosting service that i…
Sebastian Hoffback
  • 557
  • 4
  • 14
3
votes
1 answer

What does "compartmentalizing services" mean?

I'm building a web app using Node/Express/Angular/Mongo and this is my first time dealing with a cloud server. Rackspace suggested that I compartmentalize my services. In an effort to not sound like a complete novice in front of the client, I turn…
Maverick
  • 3,039
  • 6
  • 26
  • 35
3
votes
1 answer

node.js hosting with SSL?

So say I have a node.js application that hosts both a HTTP and HTTPS server as described in the question: How to force SSL / https in Express.js In my code I have the following: // General configuration settings for production…
Siyfion
  • 979
  • 1
  • 12
  • 32
3
votes
2 answers

Ways to cloud host embedded neo4j server with jruby on rails?

I have a rails server using the embedded neo4j server and the neo4j.rb gem. Using rails 3.1, jruby 1.7 and neo4j.rb 2.0 what is the best way to host a production server? I looked into Heroku but the neo4j addon only supports the restful interface.…
Dave
  • 1,031
  • 1
  • 8
  • 23
3
votes
1 answer

htaccess redirect to https browser differences

i have the following in my .htaccess file to redirect http requests to https RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^newco.local,^newco.dev RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}…
Austin
  • 1,129
  • 2
  • 11
  • 18
2
votes
3 answers

Cloud Hosting for ASP.Net website developed in C# 3.0

I have designed website in ASP.Net 4.0 on Framework 4.0 using c# 3.0 along with MS Sql server Database 2008 R2. I am looking for a good hosting which can provide unlimited bandwidth and good technical support (like Tele and Live Chat). I have…
Learning
  • 19,469
  • 39
  • 180
  • 373
2
votes
2 answers

Use jQuery for single sign-on with Azure Access Control Service (ACS)?

I am consuming REST API's from an Azure instance. There is also ACS single sign-on activated for Google, Live, Facebook, and Yahoo (followed from here http://goo.gl/KNU6H). How can I create a login page for the Azure Access Control Service using…
TruMan1
  • 33,665
  • 59
  • 184
  • 335
2
votes
1 answer

What options do I have for storing video files for my website?

If I'd like to create website where users will be able to upload videos what options do I have for storing and streaming the video files? One is of course storing it on my website. But I don't think that's good option. I will need a lot of storage…
Piotr Perak
  • 10,718
  • 9
  • 49
  • 86
2
votes
3 answers

Azure compute instances

On Azure I can get 3 extra small instances for the price 1 small.I'm not worried about my site not scaling. Are there any other reasons I should not go for 3 extra small instead of 1 small? See: Azure pricing calculator.
Lee Smith
  • 6,339
  • 6
  • 27
  • 34
2
votes
1 answer

JavaEE technology stack on Windows Azure?

The organization at my company was considering moving to the cloud. My boss, engineering director, suggested Windows Azure given that he recently joined our organization coming from a .NET-only shop where his prior company leveraged it. Our…
wsb3383
  • 3,841
  • 12
  • 44
  • 59
2
votes
2 answers

how to host persistent data storage system on Amazon

I am doing a project which deals with large amount of data. I am thinking to host that project on Ec2. I intend to use Hadoop to do the computing and some NoSql system (e.g. Hbase/Cassandra) to store the data. The NoSql system must be persistent (I…
user1080611
  • 23
  • 2
2
votes
1 answer

What is the difference between applications on the cloud and web hosting?

Applications on cloud can be accessed from anywhere through the Internet just like any web hosting. So what is the difference? Is there any difference in the client server and cloud computing architecture? Thanx.
Anil Tulsi
  • 392
  • 1
  • 10
2
votes
2 answers

Using RackSpace to store data from 1,000 iPhones without "sharing"

Is there a simple way to have all my users of an app have a part of RackSpace for some of their information, let's say key'ed by their UUID (an id unique to their iPhone), with that data encrypted just for them? That way, all 1,000 could upload and…
Peter_from_NYC
  • 199
  • 1
  • 2
  • 13
1 2 3
…
26 27