Key Advantageous of Cloud Hosting for Small to Medium Businesses

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Introduction

The competitive advantage presented by href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/web-hosting-guides/a-brief-on-cloud-hosting/">cloud hosting and platform as a service vendors to large scale national and international businesses has been well documented over recent months, with the opportunity for a highly scalable service alongside excellent reliability and near 100% uptime proving to be key factors in such companies uptake of these services. Larger businesses have been able to roll out PaaS and SaaS to their sales forces and other arms of their operations – safe in the knowledge that they are receiving strong reliability, performance guarantees and 24 hour technical support.

However, as knowledge of such services gradually becomes more widespread, it is not only blue chip organizations that can benefit from the advantages that cloud hosting, PaaS and SaaS can bring to a business environment. Indeed, small to medium sized businesses are gradually beginning to take the plunge and begin to embrace these emerging technologies; seeing an opportunity for cost effective and secure solutions for their IT, software, href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/hosting-reviews/">website hosting, system backup and electronic communication needs under 1 fully managed roof. Some of the potential advantages of such services for SMB’s are discussed below.

Cost Effective, Manageable and Scalable

By selecting a cloud hosting, PaaS or SaaS package that is tailored to the individual needs of their business, SMB’s can create uniquely bespoke, cost effective solutions that save money on “lump sum” direct costs (such as software licensing, servers etc), and instead replace them with more manageable monthly payments on fixed budgets. Bespoke software packages that are accessed remotely allow also small businesses to pay only for what they need and are easily scalable as a business grows.

Convenient, Secure and Reliable

With near 100% uptime and 24/7/365 expert support, cloud hosting services can allow SME’s to focus on the core aspects of their own operations with a minimum fuss, downtime, maintenance and hassle. With this greater reliability and continuity, there is also no need to call in an IT consultant every time there are any issues with your server – thus allowing for further time and cost saving opportunities and greater productivity.

Space Saving

Many small businesses simply do not have sufficient office space to house a large, bulky, in house server unit. The remote access available through cloud hosting services therefore gives SMB’s a much needed opportunity to save on precious office space and therefore maximise the potential of the small amount of room they have available for other more pertinent purposes relevant to the core aspects of their business.

Eco Friendly

By eliminating the amount of power consumption that may be used by in an house server and other electronic equipment and instead remotely accessing their hosting, data storage and backup facilities via the cloud platform, SMB’s can in essence become much more eco friendly and green in their day to day business operations – diminishing their carbon footprint while simultaneously saving money by reducing associated costs and electricity bills.

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Why Businesses Switch To Cloud Hosting

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The Cloud is slowly replacing href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/vps-hosting-guide/">virtual private (VPS) hosting and dedicated servers. Although there are quite some different opinions and comments on href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/web-hosting-beginner-guide/">which type of hosting service trumps the others, cloud hosting is undoubtedly here to stay in the main stream. Personally, I predict cloud to go even more popular for the next 18 – 24 months due to cheaper cost and lower technology barriers. (And, in case you are my regular reader, you should be aware that WHSR has recently ‘went cloud’ too – Read more about the switch and href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/hosting-review/wp-engine/">my review on the new host – WP Engine.)

So, Why More And More Websites Are Going Cloud?

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What makes cloud a better hosting option? Why more and more websites choose to host their websites in the cloud? Here’s a quick round up on why people (business owners, especially) go cloud.

Easier and faster communication

Before, the primary means of communication companies use are phone calls and personal meet-ups. Whether internal or external communications are involved, cloud hosting makes it easier and faster for every company. Interaction within the company, with clients, and with remote services are made possible through emails, chats, or video conferences.

Easier to set up

Companies can leave all the technical aspects of setting up their IT needs to cloud computing services. The clients are only required to do simple methods to get it up and running. Moreover, clients do not need to rely heavily on an IT specialist as they can handle cloud services with a click of a mouse.

High availability

When a computer fails, the document (or any data on screen) is lost unless it was being constantly saved. With cloud hosting, companies can trust that their websites would still be online despite of hardware failure.

Grow a company’s web presence

Internet marketing is already an essential tool for a company’s advertising plan. Cloud hosting provides software that will allow companies to market their business online. This includes email marketing, online videos, and advertisements, among others.

Environment-friendly

One of the reasons companies switch to cloud computing is due to its environmental benefits. As companies use fewer computers (and other hardware) with cloud computing, they minimize their monthly electric consumption. Less electric consumption means less carbon footprint for that company.

Websites will load faster

Cloud hosting uses multiple web servers on multiple geographic locations. As such, a client based on any country will be directed to a web server based within or on the country nearest to him/her. Websites will load much faster this way.

Cost effective

Cost-effective means are always a gain for any business, especially if the service delivers. Cloud hosting only requires companies to own a terminal with limited processing power, but the latter can already avail of a wide array of services, such as operations and management of the infrastructure, customer support, data backups and recovery, and service provisioning.

Highly automated

Personnel from the IT department do not need to concern themselves with constantly updating their software, as cloud hosting companies already provide for this kind of service.

IT departments can now focus on other matters

Since the cloud hosting company works on majority of the IT department’s responsibilities, the company can now redirect the IT department’s efforts to other matters like internal issues and direct client services.

Going Cloud – What Are Your Choices

Depending on the needs of the user, they can opt to use traditional, VPS, or cloud hosting. However, the benefits of cloud computing cannot be ignored anymore, as it is already starting to make a name in the IT industry. In case you are searching for the right cloud host, do support our advertisers listed below.

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Problems With Cloud?

Quick answer: Security. I have written quick a few on this issue and in case you wish to learn more, check out my previous article href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/web-hosting-guides/a-brief-on-cloud-hosting/">A Brief On Cloud Hosting

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