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We have just had a chance to share Host Color’s vision on Cloud computing and Cloud hosting in a Web Hosting Talk’s thread titled “Will cloud computing take over traditional web hosting?“. The forum member with a nickname “johnswift” has opened a thread with this title asking “Will cloud hosting pose a threat to traditional web hosting models? With Google, Amazon, IBM, etc now entering the cloud computing business, business gets even tougher for small scale hosting providers. Pretty soon the big boys will have their technology ready and will give out free cloud computing space (say 1 or 2 gigs) and charge the heavy users.”.

Cloud computing changes the model of doing web hosting

You can read the HostColor’s response to the thread.

Cloud computing as a concept of building web hosting infrastructures is definitely killing the traditional way of doing web hosting, buy using a standard low cost rack-mountable servers. Of course clusters and load-balancing aren’t something new, but contemporary websites and applications require more resources, so using any kind of cluster or cloud architecture which utilizes virtualization (it must do it actually) is a must for any web host that wants to expand business.

One of the things that make most people, not to move to the clouds is the pricing model (per usage) that cloud hosting provider utilize. It makes the cloud web hosting services more expensive than those produced from non-scalable and unbalanced hosting infrastructures, especially in Shared Hosting and low cost VPS and Dedicated hosting niches.

One of the things we haven’t said in WHT is that each company that currently provides any Cloud computing based web hosting service uses its own application standards. So we can say that the Cloud Hosting market is still immature. There is no standardization which brings a lot of confusion on the market when it comes to business decision and organizing any Cloud hosting business.