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[explorer]

Cloud web hosting is gaining huge popularity nowadays and well known companies like Google and Apple store their customer data on cloud servers. Cloud hosting uses a network of servers and if any one particular server is down, others will take care of the job. Because of this feature it is said the downtime is quite limited in a cloud hosting environment.

But I wonder in fact how secure is a cloud hosting under real circumstances? Is there any chance of data security breach in the long run when information is stored in a network of servers?

 

[vinaya]

Cloud hosting is the best option for the website that deals with big data and huge traffic. For a small website dealing with small traffic, colud hosting is not necessary. Websites such as google is using cloud hosting servicee

 

[moneyman]

I wouldn't upload anything and expect it to stay private, especially to "the cloud", which is merely a fancy name for distributed servers that have been around forever. They just wanted to market the name more often and the technology needed a catchy buzzword, so the term of being "the cloud" was introduced to the public for it. All you're doing is uploading your data to a server that makes hundreds or thousands of copies of it while duplicating it around the web to ensure that the content is always there and never disappears.

If you need to preserve the data and don't care about who has access to it (anyone or everyone for any purpose at all), then I guess you could use cloud storage. I would personally never use it, not even if I encrypted data before uploading it. The only thing worse than private data being hacked from your machine is having it hacked from one of thousands of copies to where you can't do anything about it, and would never know that it was compromised. At least on your own machine, you have ways to know or prevent it. In the cloud, you don't.

If it isn't something you would upload to the front page of a web site with millions of hits per day, it isn't something you should be uploading to distributed data warehousing systems called "the cloud", either.

I store my data offline, and with the exception of public storage, I still run private servers. The only data I let be uploaded to a virtual server where cloud storage is used is what I want the world to see and have access to, and that's all.

 

[suresh]

As I seen on one of forum cloud hosting did not worked properly with them and few of them too complained about it. There are some large websites that aren't using Cloud hosting, may be the security. The only best thing is for great business that should use because they might get huge loss if the server goes down.

Normal sites also may use if they were making $1000 per day according to the cloud hosting services.