Find the best cloud computing host providers for your public or private cloud

Now that you know what you need, how do you define a good cloud computing host? Price is an important factor, of course. But just as important is service and technology. Everyone wants a host that provides 100 percent uptime but no company is perfect. How do you know whether your host is reliable? Reputation. Technology is easier to judge. A cloud computing Host Company must offer the best platform -- which for cloud computing is known as PaaS or Platform as a Service.

Cloud clients

Users access cloud computing using networked client devices, such as desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Some of these devices - cloud clients - rely on cloud computing for all or a majority of their applications so as to be essentially useless without it. Examples are thin clients and the browser-based Chromebook. Many cloud applications do not require specific software on the client and instead use a web browser to interact with the cloud application. With Ajax and HTML5 these Web user interfaces can achieve a similar or even better look and feel as native applications. Some cloud applications, however, support specific client software dedicated to these applications (e.g., virtual desktop clients and most email clients). Some legacy applications (line of business applications that until now have been prevalent in thin client Windows computing) are delivered via a screen-sharing technology

Cloud engineering:

Cloud engineering is the application of engineering disciplines to cloud computing. It brings a systematic approach to the high-level concerns of commercialisation, standardisation, and governance in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems. It is a multidisciplinary method encompassing contributions from diverse areas such as systems, software, web, performance, information, security, platform, risk, and quality engineering.

Hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together, offering the benefits of multiple deployment models.[8]

      By utilizing "hybrid cloud" architecture, companies and individuals are able to obtain degrees of fault tolerance combined with locally immediate usability without dependency on internet connectivity. Hybrid Cloud architecture requires both on-premises resources and off-site (remote) server based cloud infrastructure .Hybrid clouds lack the flexibility, security and certainty of in-house applications.[42] Hybrid cloud provides the flexibility of in house applications with the fault tolerance and scalability of cloud based services.

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