Multi-cloud is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services from different vendors in a single heterogeneous architecture by an organization to improve the capacity and cost of cloud infrastructure. This also refers to the distribution of cloud assets, software, applications, etc., across multiple cloud hosting environments. With a typical multi-cloud architecture that uses two or more … [Read more...]
What is Confidential Computing?
Confidential computing is a privacy enhancing computing methodology intended to protecting data. The method isolates sensitive data during processing into a protected CPU enclave and only authorized programmers who have access to the contents of the enclave—the data that is being processed. The methods used to process it—and they are invisible and unknowable to anyone else, including the cloud … [Read more...]
Fastest Origin Pull CDNs of 2023
It is hard to beat few CDN providers such as CacheFly, Akamai, Fastly, StackPath (MaxCDN) and so on. The choice is more limited if you want to narrow your option with origin pull CDNs. The advantage of origin pull CDNs is that, their server will automatically pull the static files (including HTML) on their server. You have nothing to configure on WordPress except adding the root URL of the CDN. … [Read more...]
What Are the Advantages of Dedicated Server Over Cloud Server (for WordPress)
This article is complimentary to the previously published article What Are the Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server for WordPress. Even the $100/month dedicated servers offer certain advantages over cloud server for the purpose of hosting WordPress. While the list of reasons why cloud servers are superior to running WordPress is endless, it is true that on a dedicated server, you are … [Read more...]
What Are the Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server (for WordPress)
Premium cloud servers from reputed web hosts (including IBM, Fujitsu, and also Linode's dedicated CPU) offer several advantages over cheap dedicated servers. The 100% warranty of what you'll receive is only present for colocation hosting. Colocation is super costly, and complicated, adding extra headaches and expenditures. The reason cloud servers have been a popular choice over any kind of … [Read more...]
What Elasticity in Cloud Computing Means?
Elasticity in cloud computing is the ability of this cloud to adapt to application needs as quickly as possible. There are several definitions according to various authors, some considering the notions of scalability and elasticity as identical, others as distinct. The advent of such distributed systems inevitably leads to technical problems that must be solved or limited. At the economic … [Read more...]
Is it Good to Run Apache Web server and MySQL Database on Separate Cloud Servers?
It is common to have a single LAMP-based website on a cloud server so the database and web server are on the same "container". With the advent of database-as-a-service, some of the web hosts are already offering MySQL, PostgreSQL database servers as separate instances. The question is, to run a WordPress installation, is it practical to have MySQL database on a different server? What are the … [Read more...]
Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server for Hosting WordPress
It can be confusing to some of the readers as sometimes we say that dedicated servers are a great choice for hosting WordPress, and other times we are praise cloud servers. Is sponsorship money playing behind these contradictory statements or there are practical problems? Managed dedicated servers are great for performance. Unless you pay a huge behind-the-premium cloud server you never get the … [Read more...]
How Does Edge-Enabled Distributed Cloud Works?
In a distributed cloud setup, public cloud services are offered to customers at remote satellite locations outside the cloud provider's facilities. This gives the enterprise increased capabilities for storing and processing data in different data centers situated at various physical locales. The responsibility of operation, management and maintenance of the services lies with the public cloud … [Read more...]
The Concept Behind Designing a Hybrid Cloud Architecture
The hybrid cloud architecture combines multiple environments across public cloud, private cloud and sometimes on-premises infrastructure for a single managed IT infrastructure. A hybrid cloud infrastructure can be implemented by an enterprise hosting legacy applications on premise and interacting with public cloud services via APIs. However, this may not be the best use case for hybrid cloud … [Read more...]
Disadvantages of Cloud-Native Computing
The market for cloud-native solutions is growing steadily, but they come with a price. Analysts are predicting that more than 95 percent of application workloads will run on cloud-native platforms by 2025, however new technologies are not accepted linearly. Cloud native development is the process of building and running applications in a cloud environment. By leveraging cloud architecture … [Read more...]