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Sunday, December 11, 2011

More On Sampling A Cloud Server Before You Buy

By Andre Goff


When it comes to information and website hosting then cloud hosting is the latest in technological advances. This does appear to have lots of advantages that can be appealing to business and individuals with website and data storage needs. This technology offers the opportunity for people to host a website or store lots of information on servers that they do not have to physically store or maintain.

Of course cloud web hosting is a fairly new technological introduction so not everyone is convinced about the benefits it has, Many are concerned about how secure it might be or if it will actually be something that can be sustained in the long run. Technology experts are understandably excited about this and do try to reassure people of its viability. If you are not convinced by all that though then the best thing to do is find a way to test it out for yourself.

The most common way available to fully test it is to look for a company offering a free trial. There are several companies on the internet who offer this and use it as a way to get more people to use this service. While it may be a marketing ploy for the companies there is every reason why the customer can benefit too. This is a perfect opportunity to see if this type of thing will be suitable to your needs.

Most of these companies will offer trials that last for 5 or 7 days. In this time you can not only test out the technology but you can also asses the service provider. With the wide availability of free trials you can also test out several different companies at the same time to get a feel for the different features.

The majority of hosting companies have started to offer some sort of trial to people who are interested in a cloud server. This period of trialling is unlikely to offer the full range of features though. This is designed to give you the opportunity to assess a sample of the benefits before you transfer all your websites and data over.

During the testing period you can spend some time learning about the technology and its full capacity. It would be a good idea to transfer a small amount of data or start up a test website to see how safe a secure it would be. These are supposed to be similar to that of having dedicated servers as opposed to shared so straight away it is clear that security should be less of an issue. This will vary between companies though so it is important to confirm this during the free trial.

There does appear to be a lot of advantages to this new technology and these can be tested wherever trials are offered. You have the option to easily scale up, depending on your storage requirements, as well as the fact that you will not have to worry about maintaining physical servers on your premises.

Certainly at first glance cloud server technology seems to be very good for taking care of major data storage needs. Apprehension is expected with many things like new technologies and that is why a free trial is so beneficial.




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