Putting the Cloud to Work for our Customers
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Over the last month or so I have been busy assessing various hosting providers for our product. The host is a technical partner who is responsible for ensuring our products are always running and safe from illegitimate access.
In the past, and even today, a hosting company managed hundreds to thousands of servers and when a new customer wanted to go online the customer deduce what size server is needed or whether they can share a server with other customers. That arrangement works well but it can be expensive and it does not scale very well so what else is there? The alternative is a new type of hosting environment: Cloud computing.
