Managed cloud hosting brings together the advantages of professional server management and cloud computing – a term that refers to shared computer processing resources on demand.
Strictly speaking, the following three elements of cloud computing are used in this hosting solution:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): it doesn’t matter whether the virtualized server resources are shared over the internet or come from a private data center – cloud hosting services always make hardware infrastructure available for different projects as a matter of course.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS): the system platform is built on the cloud infrastructure. This means all system-technical software elements that can be used to run applications like a web server or web development tools.
- Software as a Service (SaaS): managed cloud hosting means you don’t need to worry about the installation and updating of your applications software. Usually, you simply select your choice of applications like content management systems or online shop software from the dashboard and install them with one click onto your rented cloud server.
It’s not just web projects that can be made a reality by using services like these as a basis. Cloud servers represent an excellent alternative for storage and backup locations for all types of files as well as other business applications. The ‘managed’ component of this service is guaranteed to save you a lot of time and effort, no matter what purpose you use the hosting environment for in the end. And since all your data will be in the cloud, you can access it from anywhere with any device, provided you have an active internet connection.
The most decisive advantage that cloud hosting offers when compared with alternative solutions is the ease of scalability across all resources. You can increase or decrease your storage space, processing performance, or random access memory in real time, allowing you to react to your company’s developments and continue to optimize your resources. If you’re responsible for a newly founded company, or an operator of an online shop, you’re likely to profit particularly highly from this option. This is because, as a newly founded company manager, you’re likely to find it difficult to estimate your resource requirements due to uncertainty over your future, while as an online shop operator, you’ll probably suffer from daily and seasonal fluctuations in your website visitors. In these instances, a precise live tuning of resources that can be calculated in real time is the perfect solution. And the typical billing model of managed cloud hosting is pay-as-you-use, meaning you don’t need to worry.