Cloud storage is a new concept and becoming an attraction nowadays. It is nothing but a paradigm of networked online storage, wherein customers host or store their data. Web Hosting providers control large data centers, and clients who need their information to be hosted so that it is accessible and available anytime usually buy or lease the storage space in the cloud environment.

With the development of flash memory technology, the model of data storage can be totally changed. At the current stage, the SSD storage devices are still much costly, however, EMC (Enterprise Strategy Group) thinks that soon flash storage will acquire the same importance and price as of disk drives for high-end.

The hardware and software offered by EMC may boost the cloud storage market, since manufacturer like Amazon is offering storage systems and high scalability that are accessible across the web. Most of the people underestimate the pace with which the storage technology in cloud will change the way users store their data and access it. Some of the known analysts of the industry don’t think that data centers are totally integrated in the “cheap cloud storage”, however, some analysts believe that within 10 years the data centers will be within the cloud.

Of course, still there are many concerns to these technologies, and security and privacy are two of them, particularly when moving data centers to the enterprise data systems based on web. It is obvious that data is most unsafe outside a data center, however, it is a fact that the “cloud data” would be more easy to protect, no matter whether the data is shared and accessed more easily from access devices.

Now a days, flash storage has started gaining more followers in both ranges as high as the lowest in the storage market. Individuals will be easily and safely able to store and make backups of their data with cloud storage.

It is being predicted that the enterprise flash drives and cloud storage technology, will completely change the industry over the next 10 years. Due the emerging technologies in industry, cloud hosting may offer faster storage, efficient and fully scalable web platform that can diminish the necessities of data centers.

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Technical realization of VDS hosting services

All VDS are always installed and pre-configured with a large set of basic software (usually more than 1000 MB), required for deployment and operation of web sites. Virtual Dedicated Hosting is a complete unix-system. Administrator of VDS has  full root administration of its unix-system with opportunity and access to the full configuration and administration of the system, excluding its hardware.

Comparison between VDS with virtual hosting

Plus points of VDS:

• Full access to the system and root-administration.

• Unlimited number of sites, databases, domain zones, ssh / ftp / email users, VDS is limited only by system resources (disk, operation, processor).

• Complete isolation from other clients of hosting provider, neighbor consumes a lot of resources will have no impact on your VDS. Nobody can access your files.

• Installation of additional software, you can do it by yourself, without resorting your hosting provider, who may refuse.

Minus points of VDS :

• A small difference in price.

Comparison of VDS with UK Dedicated Server

Plus points of VDS :

• VDS is much cheaper than a dedicated server.

• All pre-installed software are regularly updated without intervention (if the user has not replaced), thus providing protection to VDS against outside intrusion with use of known vulnerabilities in older versions of software. In the case of conventional Dedicated Server user will do it by themselves or engage external system administrators.

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