Cloud Hosting

Listeners of the World,

You might have heard about Cloud Hosting in the news lately. But what is Cloud Hosting? And how will it affect Ourtown?

You might not know it but you probably already take part in Cloud hosting if you are using Google. Google has a huge infrastructure of computers, a cloud, that handle all the searches people do.

So what is Cloud Hosting? Cloud Hosting a large set of computers that all handle requests from clients, that's you, in real time. This is much better than having a single server because it scalable allowing more power to be added to the system as needed. For Ourtown, this means that if we need more power we just add more servers to the Cloud. It also means if a server goes down there are others to take its place, reducing down time. Taking it one step further, this Cloud of servers can be distributed all over the world with multiple backups so if there is a major disaster at one data center another is able to take up the load.

So despite some of the bad press Cloud Hosting has received lately, done right Cloud is very beneficial to Ourtown.

Your tech wizard,
Michael