The architecture of the Shared Cloud Environment

Paul Lopez
20 Jul, 2022

Cloud Hosting

The shared cloud is offered to promote affordable cloud hosting that is accessible to users of all abilities and businesses of any size, so that they are able to reap the benefits of the reliability and security that the cloud platform can provide.

bodHOST cloud hosting utilizes one of the core principles of promoting affordability in the shared cloud – the pay-per-use concept; the definition of ‘pay-per-use’ in this context is that you will be paying for the resources that you wish to have allocated to your server or are using, and nothing beyond that.

Furthermore, the cloud platform allows for the expansion of virtual machines with just a few clicks, so that resources are assigned quickly; with this feature, we can assure you that minimal or no downtime will be incurred when adjusting the resource arrangement on one of your virtual machines.

Offering competitive unit prices for each of the resources that form a cloud virtual machine is another strength of the platform; although affordability can be achieved by allowing customers to specify the units that they require of each resource, it is important to offer competitive resource pricing so that even customers with low budgets can obtain a reasonably powerful VM for the price. The major benefits of enterprise cloud hosting can also be summarized as:

A high uptime guarantee is provided with bodHOST cloud hosting plans because the architecture of the cloud introduces a high level of redundancy that ensures that there are no single points of failure in the network or hardware architecture
As all cloud servers communicate with one another via an internal network, you can be assured that your data is hosted in a secure environment and that it will be very hard for unauthorized parties to intercept these communications
The cloud platform can be managed directly from the web interface, where you can order additional resources for your existing VMs as well as create new virtual machines to ensure that your demands are constantly fulfilled

More often than not, even the largest of businesses won’t be able to fully utilize what a private cloud can offer in terms of capacity, and the shared cloud often has more than enough capability to offer – bodHOST is always adding additional capacity in the form of extra hardware to ensure that our cloud clusters can improve the performance of their virtual machines when needed.

Auto-scaling is also available for situations where demand can’t be predicted and where you may not be in a position to manually increase the resources of your virtual machine; auto-scaling will automatically allocate the resources that your VMs require to remain stable when they are put under a high load, with these additional resources then withdrawn once demand subsides.

Web Hosting vs. Cloud Computing

As an enterprise web hosting company, BodHOST can offer a strong shared cloud platform, and we believe that our cloud hosting plans are some of the most affordable and offer many additional benefits over traditional web hosting plans.

Even though the cloud may be a more expensive endeavor for some, the additional cost is there to cover the extra hardware that is used to provide a stable hosting environment; traditional web hosting plans that use single-server configurations often fail to meet high uptime levels because there is no redundancy in place to handle server failures.

Cloud computing as a technology continues to be adopted by businesses of all sizes because it allows for the centralized storage of documents and application data so that users are able to create a consistent experience between all of the devices that they use to access the cloud, whether these are computers or mobile devices.

In the context of web hosting, the cloud introduces the concept of having full control of your virtual machines along with other external factors; IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platforms not only provide you with virtual machines, but these VMs can be adapted as you see necessary, and you can adjust external settings and setup features, including firewalls and networks between cloud VMs.

For a reliable enterprise cloud hosting experience, you should look into bodHOST’s cloud hosting services and see how modern cloud hosting can support your business efficiently.