Host Your Website in Google Cloud Platform

The term Website refers to a collection of related web pages, multimedia content, a hyperlink to other websites published on a web server identified by a common domain name.

A website can be used for various purposes like it can be personal, commercial, government or a non- profit organization. It can be beneficial to an individual or a business organization.

The basic intention behind creating a website is to publish it to the web.

Web hosting is the process which allows making the website accessible via the World Wide Web. Hosting needs a space on a server with internet connectivity typically in a data centre.

So in order to host their website on the internet, an individual or company would need their own server. But it is not possible, as it is expensive as well as needs the expertise to do so.

But at the same time, with the advancement of technology, the number of users accessing the World Wide Web has increased, which is giving pressure on business organizations to have an online presence.

Web hosts are the companies which are providing the hosting service to those individuals or companies which are unable to have their own servers and infrastructure required to operate the website. Cloud hosting is considered the most beneficial one among various hosting types.

There are many cloud platforms which provide cloud hosting like - AWS, Azure, Google etc.

There are different types of Google Cloud Web Hosting. Some of them are listed below:-

1. Shared Web Hosting.

2. Dedicated Hosting Service.

3. Colocation Web Hosting Services.

4. Clustered Hosting.

5. Containerized Hosting.

Google Cloud Hosting is currently the best solution on the market when compared based on below factors:

1. Scalability - Hosting in the cloud platform helps your infrastructure to incorporate multiple servers to provide extra capacity. This increases the flexibility to deal with unwanted traffic surges as well as create an infrastructure that can grow with your requirements over a longer period of time.

2. Better Performance - Due to better Scalability, the performance is automatically enhanced. As the increased capacity leads to increased availability thus reducing the load on a single server. The load is balanced among multiple servers, providing less strain and better user experience.

3. Reduced Costs - Switching to the cloud platform itself means that you need not invest in your own infrastructure which reduces the capital expenditure. And the increased scalability helps you to scale up and down and need not to worry about paying for the unused extra space. There is no maintenance cost because the infrastructure is provided in the cloud.

4. Disaster Recovery - Cloud hosting makes disaster recovery much easier compared to other hosting services as it uses multi-server hosting architecture. In simple words, when you are hosting through the cloud, you get multiple data centres located worldwide. So if a particular geographical area is affected by any disaster, your data can be retrieved from the other one.

Basically, we use two servers, primary and secondary. The primary one is used for the production purpose (Active one) and the other is secondary one (Inactive) which is used in case of the failure of the primary one. While on the cloud you can easily switch between the two if you face any disaster with fewer costs.

But in the case of on-premise, it becomes very expensive to maintain two servers with the later one unused if no such disaster situation arises.

5. Pricing: Google bills in minute level increment thus you need to pay only for your computing time. And you can also get a discounted price for long-running workloads without any upfront commitment. Thus it reduces the IT costs for both the startup and Enterprise organizations.

6. Private Global Fibre Network - Google cloud hosting is apart from the other ones in the market as their network is one of the biggest in the world. It has a privately distributed backbone between all the data centres. Google is also one of six members which have sole access to a pair of 100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths optical transmission strands between Oregon and Japan. Google has private trans - Atlantic subsea cable, also known as “Dunant “ which crosses the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia Beach in the U.S. to the French Atlantic coast.

7. Live Migration - Another advantage of Google Cloud Hosting is Live Migration of Virtual Machines. Benefits of Live Migration is that it helps in patching, repairing, and updating the software and hardware without the need for machine reboots. And besides that Google also allows resizing your constant disks without any downtime.

8. Data Security - Another advantage of Choosing Google Cloud Hosting is that it provides data security. All the data stored on the persistent disks are encrypted under 256-bit AES and each encryption key is also encrypted with a set of regularly changed master keys. It gives fewer hops across the public internet.