5 Questions You Should Definitely Ask While Choosing A Cloud Hosting Plan

Cloud computing as a service has gradually climbed to the list of favourites for businesses. More than a favourite, it has empowered businesses with collaboration increasing their pace and productivity. Given the rate of cloud adoption within small and medium businesses, cloud web hosting is also being a preferred service when it comes to hosting a website.This is due to several reasons. One being storage and security. Other reasons being performance, reliability etc. As industry onlookers, it makes us wonder how are these businesses narrowing down on cloud web hosting when it comes to putting up their website? How to decide where to store data in cloud? What are the things that they factor in before taking the decision? As we probe further, we hit a few spots which made us feel that this pretty much is a common thread between successful business who have adopted a cloud hosting policy. This article aims at providing you with a few useful tips to keep in mind should you do the same.Here we go!  

Before you choose your cloud hosting service, do ask yourself these 5 easy questions.

1. Does It Serve a Consistent Uptime?

A consistent uptime record is the mark of a great cloud hosting service. As someone who is considering to buy a cloud hosting service, you should always know what kind of an uptime is a good uptime. Is it 90%, 95%? Or is it more? The truth is that a good cloud hosting service will provide you with 99.9% uptime. Always ensure that you ask your colleagues or people from your industry about the uptime that their cloud service provider is guaranteeing them. This will give you a fair idea as to what your benchmark should be.

2. Is It Secure Enough?

Any cloud hosting service that maintains a record of security should definitely be trusted. But how would you know what makes a cloud hosting service safe enough? In that case, check if your service provider complies with the standards and upgrades of the industry. You can figure this out by getting in touch with their clients and get an idea about the frequency of updates for security. Also, ensure that your data is protected from malware or phishing attacks. If this research is satisfactory, move on to the next question, which is:

3. Does It Have a Backup or a Recovery Plan?

Cloud hosting is secure. But what if an earthquake or a geographic disaster affects your region? In order to maintain business continuity, it is essential that your cloud hosting service has a backup or a recovery plan. With a good back up plan for cloud hosting, you can be rest assured that you business days won’t be affected. On the contrary it will add to your business days because you will still be running your shop and making money on those odd days.

4. Does It Provide Me With Overall Reports? 

A cloud hosting service that gives you an overall report of what upgrades it has done, how many upgrades it has done and what attacks were checked for and what performance it has given over the month, is a service to vouch for. Some of these key performance indicators will be responsible for the smooth functioning of your website. You may not feel that it is affecting your business directly because you don’t really earn anything from it. But these reports give you the satisfaction as a business that the security and safety of my website is looked after.

5. Does It Provide Me With Resources As I Scale My Business?

Any business ambitious enough will definitely consider this as one of the key elements while choosing a cloud hosting service. If you are upping the ante when it comes to your business, it is but natural that you will need your resources to walk hand in hand. After all profitability is the only motive of any business. So, a hosting partner that helps you climb the business ladder is a partner that you should opt for. Cloud hosting, luckily, enables huge amount of resources. It is well known for its scale because it does not store any of its data on local hard drives etc. Instead it stores data at a remotely located data center where upgrading resources is possible.

In Closing, We Would Like To Add

Ensure that your cloud web hosting is fitting right within your budget. There is no use spending a lot on a resource that can be availed at an economical rate. Also, ensure that you take exclusivity and functionality of your cloud hosting into account. Another thing which deserves a mention since we touched upon the topic of scaling is that your cloud hosting plan must allow you to migrate from one cloud hosting to another. This is important from the user’s point of view. On the whole, ensure that cloud hosting makes things easy for you because that is what your website and your business would want.