When
choosing a platform for the hosting of your website, you will want to be
assured that your website will be able to access sufficient resources to ensure
that it is able to run stable so that no downtime is caused because of a lack
of system resources. ESDS Cloud Hosting has been designed
to be scalable by providing you with access on-tap to the resources that your
virtual machines require; with traditional web hosting plan designs you have
had to upgrade to the next available web hosting package if you were
running low on one particular resource, whereas with a cloud virtual server you
can elect to upgrade the individual resources of your virtual machines as they
begin to run low so that you are only ever paying for what you need. It is the
ability to upgrade individual resources as your needs dictate that makes cloudweb hosting scalable because it means that your web hosting environment
can grow with your website and there will never really be any limitations as to
the level to which you can scale your cloud virtual machines because resources
are so easy to come by in the cloud. When seeking a scalable cloud hosting
service you should look for services that use this pay-per-use hosting model
because these are often built around a self-scaling cloud model that will
provide you with a auto scalable cloud with vertical and horizontal scaling for
providing cost effective solution.
How does
scalability aid the growth of a website?
As
a website grows, it is going to be receiving more and more visitors every month
and with this will come an increased load on the server hosting the website
because there will be more people doing more things on the website at the same
time and as a result of this there will be an increased number of requests for
the server to deal with. With a scalable web hosting environment you will be
able to grow the resources of your server to match the pace of growth of your
website so that you are never having to worry about downtime being caused by a
lack of resources; this removes the limitation of other web hosting
environments with which you would have to upgrade to a different type of web
hosting when you had exhausted all available resources opportunities.
Auto-Scaling Cloud
One
solution for websites that are unable to predict their future traffic loads is
auto-scaling because this will assign additional resources to virtual machines
for the short term whilst being placed under a load spike or similar
situations. You will never be certain of the resources being used on your cloud
virtual machines at any point in time unless you are using specialist
monitoring software and so it will be helpful for many businesses to have a
solution in place that will take care of increasing resources for them; these
additional resources will then be returned to the central pool once the load on
your cloud VMs resides, but you will still have the option to reassign these
resources permanently if you feel that the increased load on your virtual
machines is going to be sustained for a long period of time.
