Cloud server is a new kind of server, which is dominating the old-fashioned servers (dedicated servers and shared servers) these days. Cloud servers are becoming more popular nowadays because of some key benefits it is offering to the users which are not there in our old traditional servers.
Previously, organizations used traditional dedicated servers or shared servers. These servers helped many organizations in many ways before the cloud servers came. But, there are some challenges in traditional servers that made businesses incline towards cloud servers.
Challenges in traditional servers
Dedicated servers are the physical servers owned by the organization and used by them to the fullest. Some drawbacks of dedicated servers are they are very expensive, and installing it is a time-consuming process. Dedicated servers must be chosen in such a manner that it falls within the budget and provides all the resources required by the organization.
Shared servers are the servers which are shared by many organizations or the server which serves many clients at the same time. Some drawbacks of shared servers are flow of traffic is high and workload on the server is very high which reduces the performance of the services.
Cloud server overcomes all these drawbacks. It is a virtual server that is available on cloud and is more flexible and scalable. When the demand for the cloud server increases, the service providers automatically increases the capacity of the server. Users can use whatever resources they need and pay for them via flexible payment methods (pay-per-use, etc.) Hence, cloud servers are comparatively cheaper.
Benefits of cloud server
- Cloud servers are easy to set-up or install.
- There are many servers available on the cloud and the best thing about cloud hosting is, it allocates separate server for every user. Cloud also offer server redundancy. This means if in any case the server crashes or fails to function, the cloud service provider allocates another server automatically. With this, the functionality of client’s business is not affected and their business runs smoothly.
- Cloud servers are available to the clients from anywhere and from any hardware device provided the device have internet connectivity. These devices can be computer, laptop, smartphones, etc.
- Cloud servers provide storage services to the users. Organizations can store all their information on the cloud and retrieve them whenever necessary.
- Cloud servers allow organizations to develop, test and run their applications.
- Cloud servers allow to host websites of the organizations.
Organizations or businesses should adopt the new technologies to simplify the technical maintenance of the business and make it more easy, cheap ad convenient for them. Cloud server is one such technical advancement that is helpful to small businesses as discussed.