Saturday, June 15, 2013

Cloud Service Providers Litter The Net

By Liliana Mills


It is common today to see people utilizing various cloud service providers for a number of reasons. For one they offer online storage that can easily be of value to local business or standard users alike. Another use for these services is websites that need a place to store some of their files that people access all the time.

If website owners did not utilize the cloud they would either need to host files on their own which would require storage space be purchased and somehow put onto a server so it could be made available, or they would have to pay a company to host such files for them. Either way the cost could become substantial and also take a large amount of setup time away from other website duties.

In the recent past if someone needed more storage for any reason the best way to get it was to add another hard drive to your computer. Whether internal or external it did not matter except for your preference. People would buy the drives because it was just the way it was done and no other really existed. At least none that was more efficient.

When companies started to offer online space for people to use as they wished it started a boom that made a lot of people money. On the other hand, people were happy to pay a fee for such a service because it gave them instant access to their files no matter where in the world they were at the time and also saved them money because they did not have to purchase more hardware.

As websites started to see a fit for their files on such sites they started to supplement their own archives with cloud service providers because it was smart, economical, and fast. They could gain tons of space without any additions to their own hardware and very quick and short additions of code to their pages.

As more and more sites started to use such places, other services started to do the same. Pretty soon you had providers everywhere and almost everybody was using them. Even people who really had no need for vast amounts of space now had it available to them. They figured why not if it is free, because someday it might come in handy.

When webmasters use them they can often forgo spending vast amounts of money on purchasing hardware to be used as storage. Before these providers were available to the general public webmasters could spend much of their budget just on storage for the files to run the site and the ones for the visitors of the site.

Cloud service providers today are so numerous that if you do not find the right deal for you all you have to do is keep looking. When sites start hitting the Internet that categorize and list out the services of other sites and rank the top 10 of something, you know it has "arrived". Such has already taken place with these and they do not seem to be going away any time soon.




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