Nowadays even a person, who doesn’t know what cloud hosting is, works with it every day using Gmail or doing shopping on Amazon. The reason of it is that a lot of small organizations as well as world known companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon prefer using cloud services for their business purposes.
Numerous advantages of cloud computing such as reasonable price, scalability and versatility make cloud computing services popular among the businesses all over the world. There is no need to use and support high-end computers because with the help of cloud technologies companies have an opportunity to store their data, place websites and run multiple applications on cloud servers while paying just per use.
Placing web sites on clouds allows avoiding a lot of problems. For example, if your web site located on a usual web server you can face such difficulties as lack of resources, disc capacity, and memory. In case your site is placed on cloud, it has an access to different servers and can always get additional space or power if it is required.
Some people are worry about cloud security, but professional support makes it safe to use for businesses. There are many examples of successful implementation of cloud computing. Just remember Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon’s Simple Storage Services, Apple’s iCloud and the various cloud services developed by Google and Microsoft.