History and Working of cloud web hosting

Background

An individual or an organization needs an internet service to make their website accessible through the World Wide Web. That service is called web hosting. Web hosting service is provided by companies that have servers, a computer or device which provide a working platform to other computers called clients. Providing web hosting means giving someone space on the server.

Traditional Web hosting used one server and was wholly dependent on its physical condition. In case if the server goes off all the services get suspended until it is restarted. It provided a limited bandwidth and speed.

Increasing technology demanded a solution of these problems with high-speed security and availability. Hence an advanced web hosting with multiple servers, no downtime, and high robustness was introduced and given name cloud web hosting.

History  

History of the web hosting is no so old it was after the invention of internet and awareness of the companies and individuals to launch their websites that need of hosting felt.

The internet could not grow well in its earlier phase because it was only used to transfer files and data and to launch a website, the individual or company needed to buy a personal server which was not affordable by most of the companies and individual. Later on when the concept of hosting sharing server started the world entered into a new era of inventions and innovations.

It was not before 1991 when national science foundation decided to remove commercial restrictions from the website, with this many profit companies joined hands with a foundation which previously was used for research and education and also in the same year Tim Berners-Lee and his co-workers started WWW (World Wide Web). These changes increased the number of internet users. 

  Then started a series of developments some of them are discussed here

Launching of GeoCity: GeoCity was launched 1994. It was the first hosting site which allowed people to upload pages and was later on sold to Yahoo in 1999.

The start of Shared Hosting: it is believed that around 1998 hosting packages were offered with a very low storage. Average hosting storage was about 153 MBs while there were some providers including Tibus, even were offering 10 MB storage in their entry level package.

Starting of dedicated servers: This was completely a new service provided at that time with higher speed and reliability. They offered a separate server to the buyer for his services.

After some failure services, a new innovation took charge of hosting.

The cloud hosting: The cloud hosting started in 2007. It with its unique features and applications took the world in storm 2009 when small businesses and enterprises came to know the features of cloud hosting. From then up to now, it is dominating the hosting world.

The working mechanism of Cloud Web Hosting

Some of the problems that preceding web hosting had like dependency on the physical condition of a single server, small bandwidth, small storage, speed, and security are the main reasons why the cloud web hosting was developed.

Cloud web hosting has a cluster of virtually connected servers. If the main server fails the other server takes its place as gives it back-up to make sure the availability of the services.

In old web hosting sometimes due to a heavy traffic or something else an overloading cause improper functioning of the website, which is covered here with virtually connected servers by making different paths for the traffic.

Cloud web hosting provides security, speed, large storage and bandwidth along with high uptime features. Cloud web hosting has a variety of packages that a user can avail according to his needs and requirements.

Future of Cloud web hosting

Having outstanding features the web hosting is successfully working with large enterprises for a long time. The number of users is increasing day by day rapidly. Small businesses are also converting to cloud hosting because of the high-quality features it offers.

With advance technology cloud web hosting is also enhancing their quality by adding new features and applications in order to provide better services and to cope with the challenges of the time.