If you haven\u2019t heard about cloud computing yet, God bless you: We haven\u2019t a clue how you missed out on the barrage of hip new trends, but we sure are proud of you! However, no matter how secluded your rock may be, you\u2019ll have to come out into the open sooner or later, and cloud computing is here to stay. Services based in \u201cthe cloud\u201d are becoming nearly ubiquitous, rocking our computers with everything from Google to Amazon, and we don\u2019t see it going away anytime soon. So the real question is this: What the heck does all this techno jargon mean?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re glad you asked! We\u2019ve got enough expertise under our belt to give you this quick guide to common cloud computing lingo. We\u2019ll be looking at some standard phrases, giving you the low down on what in the heck of things all this really means. Check below, and keep your thinking caps on!<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Cloud\u201d<\/strong>: So, what in the heck is a cloud, anyway? A cloud is simply a different way of storing data and information. With a cloud host, the data, software, and code you upload are stored directly on the Internet, rather than the provider\u2019s personal intranet. This means you can get at your data from anywhere in the world, and it also means you have the option to scale up as much as you need, and to release that scalability once you\u2019ve completed whatever task you needed. This isn\u2019t a new way of doing things\u2014at least not very, anyway\u2014but referring to this process as \u201cthe cloud\u201d has only just now become standard.<\/p>\n Hybrid Hosting:<\/strong> This is a combination for both cloud hosting<\/a> and standard dedicated hosting<\/a>, in which more vital information, like the operating system, is saved to the hard drive. All the other stuff you put up is saved to the cloud. This is because a dedicated server is much sturdier, as well as safer, and is better suited to holding your vitals. The cloud, on the other hand, performs better under heavy load, and is perfect for holding all the extra junk\u2014like your graphical website\u2014that you want the users to see.<\/p>\n Cloudsourcing<\/strong>: Rather than having a traditional IT service that handles your support, a cloud service handles all of your troubleshooting needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you haven\u2019t heard about cloud computing yet, God bless you: We haven\u2019t a clue how you missed out on the barrage of hip new trends, but we sure are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[359,358],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-hosting"],"views":121,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}