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Understanding how reseller hosting works

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Today, around 50% of the world is connected to the internet, and the power of the internet has revolutionised how billions of people participate in the economy. Thanks to smartphones, the number of consumers continues to grow on the internet leading to an unprecedented rise in online businesses and companies. Setting up an online business is easy as a-b-c, and this is why everyone wants to set up their store on the internet. This is why cloud hosting is a lucrative industry to be a part of. As more small businesses and individual entrepreneurs continue to find their home on the internet, there’s an opportunity to start earning money as a cloud hosting reseller . Basically, selling hosting to consumers as an independent hosting provider or as a business can help you earn recurring income.   Here’s how it works - firstly, you can easily purchase from a large scale, enterprise level hosting provider, and then you can repackage the hosting, brand it as your own, and sell the same...

Starting an online business? It’s time to leverage the power of cloud

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Ready to start your new business in today’s modern, hyper-competitive environment? Here’s what you need to do - you ought to invest in the right set of tools, solutions and techniques to stay ahead of the curve. You might have chosen a great brand name, made a beautiful website design and even planned a set of marketing activities to launch your brand but have you given a thought about your website hosting? Compared to traditional hosting solutions, cloud server hosting is more scalable, secure, robust and cost-effective. The cloud enables businesses of varying scale and sizes to take advantage of cutting-edge technology for storage and computing, helping them grow without limits. A cloud based hosting server frees you from the hassle of managing your own server or infrastructure, therefore, helping you control costs and avoid technical complications. Based on whether you choose a public cloud, a private cloud or a shared cloud server hosting, you will get different functionalitie...

Understanding how PaaS (Platform as a Service) pricing works

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PaaS or Platform as a Service as it is known refers to a cloud-based solution used for providing end-to-end cloud computing capabilities. These include - hardware, software and infrastructure ready for cloud based applications and services. Essentially, PaaS is a single source of truth which brings together all the different building blocks in one place, thereby, enabling businesses of varying scale and sizes to save time, money and resources. PaaS solutions can be defined on the basis of the type of computing models, programming kits, pre-built components, libraries and data structures they come with. PaaS allows organisations to easily and seamlessly   deploy, develop and iterate business applications all from the cloud without having to invest or purchase infrastructure on their own. PaaS pricing varies as per the different flavours, variables and options to suit your prerequisites, some of them including - usage, bandwidth, backups, users, licensing, applications, and so on....

What Should You Expect From Cloud Hosting Plans

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Before going into the characteristics of the best cloud hosting plans , an understanding of cloud hosting is necessary. Cloud hosting ensures that websites and applications are accessible using cloud resources. Compared to traditional hosting, cloud solutions are not deployed on a single server. Rather, a network of connected virtual and physical cloud servers hosts the application or website. This ensures greater flexibility and scalability and high computing power. Further, c loud hosting can support SQL (including MySQL) or NoSQL databases, all solutions are automated and controlled using APIs, web portals, and mobile apps, and users pay only for the quantum of resources used. Now, when you use the best cloud hosting plans, what benefits do they bring to the table? The most important benefit you get through cloud hosting plans is flexibility and scalability. While traditional databases provide limited bandwidth services, the cloud offers unlimited storage facilities that ta...

Why Should You Prefer WordPress Hosting in the Cloud

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Cloud computing has dramatically evolved in recent times and rather, has become a necessity if a company wants to keep up with its competitors and focus on growing and developing its business. There are several platforms and services that can be used to host a website, especially with WordPress as with an almost 40% share it is the most active on the Internet. This post will answer a few questions about WordPress cloud hosting . Is WordPress cloud hosting very dependable? If you are wondering if WordPress cloud hosting is dependable, the answer is an emphatic YES. Cloud hosting is the way to go if you are looking to maximize your website’s uptime and reduce downtime as much as possible. MTBF (Mean time between failure)  is the unit used to estimate correctly the time between the two failures of a system or machine. However, in cloud hosting, there is a flow of data from several servers, and the loss of any one will not adversely impact the operation of the system as a whole....

The Functions of a Cloud Reseller

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Let’s start with who is a cloud reseller hosting provider. A cloud computing reseller is a type of provider of IT services that buy cloud computing products and services from a cloud service provider and then resells them to its own set of customers. Several cloud-based services are offered by these resellers including hosting, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and more and they especially deal in products that operate in the cloud. Given that a cloud reseller hosting provider is an extension of established cloud providers, they are often termed value-added cloud resellers.   The functioning of a cloud reseller is quite simple, reselling mostly cloud computing services such as cloud reseller hosting, cloud storage, software licenses, and server stacks to their customers after adding some profit. In instances when the cloud reseller is working under a white label reselling program, they have the required authority and permission to rebrand and resell the cloud products or services as their own....

Types of Cloud Services Available

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Cloud services are platforms, software, or infrastructure hosted by third-party providers and made available to users through the internet. There are three types of solutions provided by cloud hosting vendors – Cloud Infrastructure services , Platform as a service, and Software as a service, Each of these services is responsible for facilitating the flow of user data from front-end clients through the internet, to the cloud service provider’s systems, and back. However, the services provided by each of them are quite different. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud infrastructure services are when a cloud service provider manages the complete infrastructure for you—the actual servers, network, virtualization, and data storage – all through simple Internet connectivity. The user essentially has access through an API or dashboard and rents the infrastructure. The provider of cloud infrastructure services takes care of any hardware, networking, hard drives, data storage, and serve...