Signs That Indicate You Should Shift to Cloud Hosting 

Running and managing a website is a tedious process. It also involves a series of decisions that site owners have to make and each decision can potentially impact the end-user. For example, the choice of site design, font, type and quality of content, and above all the hosting type. Since the website virtually resides with the host, choosing the right hosting type like shared hosting, Cloud Hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, etc. is important for a well-performing website. There are many factors that influence a site owner’s decision while choosing the first hosting partner for his website like familiarity with the hosting type, a recommendation from a friend/colleague, etc. While each hosting type offers certain pros and cons, today, we will talk about some tell-tale signs which indicate that you must consider shifting your website to Cloud Hosting.

Cloud Hosting services can be the solution if you answer any of the following questions affirmatively:

Does your website experience frequent downtimes?

In today’s market, users expect websites to be available 24x7x365. Unless you are comfortable with the frequent downtimes (possible though not probable), they can impact your business and overall reputation as a brand. While there are many factors that can lead to an unresponsive website, the primary reasons are hosting-related. In traditional hosting, usually, the resources required to run the site are hosted on a single web server. This creates a single point of failure which means that if the server crashes or faces a technical problem, the site goes down.

In Cloud Hosting, your website is hosted on multiple servers which work in tandem. Since the resources are divided across multiple servers, there is no single point of failure. Therefore, even if one server crashes or overloads, then another server immediately kicks in offering interrupted services to your customers. Good Cloud Hosting providers offer around 99.99% uptime assurance.

Do traffic spikes scare you since your website cannot handle the load?

With social media platforms driving users to websites, it is very difficult to predict incoming traffic. Hence, many websites are pleasantly surprised when their visitor counter suddenly starts rising feverishly. However, for the surprise to be pleasant it is important that the site offers a seamless browsing experience to users despite the spike in visitors. The problem with traditional hosting types is that since the resources are fixed, a sudden increase in users leads to overloading of the server and a slow/unresponsive website.

Most Cloud Hosting providers give instant scalability of resources wherein you can add CPU, RAM, etc. to your hosting plan just with the click of a button. This allows you to manage traffic spikes efficiently.

Some other signs that indicate a shift to Cloud Hosting is a must

• Your current hosting plan does not offer a redundant storage architecture like Ceph.
• You are concerned about the security of your site’s data or critical user information.
• You are paying for resources that you don’t regularly use. Since hosting is a recurring cost, your current hosting plan is not cost-efficient.
• You are dissatisfied with the page load speed of your website. Many Cloud Hosting providers integrate CDN and caching servers to boost the speed of your site by up to 1000%!

Summing Up

While Cloud Hosting does offer a plethora of benefits, we strongly recommend that you spend some time assessing the hosting requirements of your website before deciding to shift your hosting type. Remember, you won’t change your web host regularly. Hence, ensure that you consider all aspects before shifting to Cloud Hosting.