Cloud Hosting

When looking at Shared Web Hosting services a proper Cloud infrastructure does present some unique advantages. While much of this is seamless to the end-user the provider is able to offer a better, more scalable, and more reliable service. By having multiple servers running on the backend with a "floating" infrastructure your hosting account is not tied to one physical server as it is with a traditional shared host. Servers going down have very little (temporary) or no effect on your hosting. Growth of an environment is much more managed by the host as that environment is floating and can easily be scaled up and migrated to faster and more powerful physical servers without the need of a traditional, time consuming, invasive migration.

There's multiple network connections, multiple storage locations for redundancy, ease of management as in a virtualized environment a provider will be able to manage, modify, grow, enhance, replicate for development, and various other tasks much quicker and more effectively.

Now with Cloud Hosting, there are also many "levels" of service just as there is with traditional hosting. Ie: Shared (aka Cloud Web Hosting), Dedicated/VPS (Cloud Servers), and full on private complex clusters (Virtual Private Data Center/Private Cloud). It's up to the provider to decide which levels of services they are able to provide you with but the capabilities of Cloud Hosting are rapidly growing.

Cloud have many advantages:

• Faster loading/performance: as your site(s) are served from multiple locations VS. Being in only one NOC 
• Redundant back-ups: since copies are stored on that vast network again VS. Being on one server somewhere
• With a single server: if it crashes a RAID arrayed backup could/should step in, with a better quality host.
• And much more ECO Friendly.

A good reference that explains cloud in much simple way, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFVuJfex4l0&feature=related .

 Reference: resource taken from WHT

Can Ireland be next Test Cricket Playing Nation?

After the surprise win over English early this week, if you see them batting against India - they are actually planning like professionals and settle team. I would definitely like to see a competitive team giving a real test to Indian bowling and batting line up. They lost 2 wickets early; let's see if they can come out of this trouble.

Best of Luck to Irish team... we certainly want to see a well-tempered team in International arena who love to beat these Brits. :)

Another side thought; last time when they beat Pakistan; our coach couldn't take this defeat... let's see what happens to Andy Flower?  

Let's talk more about iPhone...

Guess what, Apple has now iPad2 to astonish the world of IT and people who're looking to surprise the world with wonders. Those who've used or experience of running iPad1 know what kinda tool Apple has made, it was fast, slim and have more features than any of its competitors.

Now before talking about iPad2, do you know that over 100 million books were downloaded from iBooks service in less than one year and with over 200 million accounts with registered credit card numbers on Apple stores (iBook, iTunes and App Store). And just to give you the idea on its achievement - Apple has paid out over $2 billion to developers cumulatively.

How many iPhone are sold yet - 100 Million... and with over 15 Million iPads

iPad2 is dramatically faster. It has a new chip called A5. It's dual-core, so we get twice as fast performance on the cpu and nine times better graphics performance. There's also a gyroscope, which the iPhone and iPod Touch also have. iPad 2 will have the same battery life as the first version, but will be 33 percent thinner. It is 13 mm thick to 8.8 mm thick, which is .5 mm thinner than an iPhone4. It's lighter too than the original iPad -- 1.3 pounds, down from 1.5. The new iPad is a little rounder. And it comes in two colors. "We'll be shipping white from day one," he says, referring to the elusive white iPhone.

Price starting from $499, available in 16, 32 and 64 GB version, wireless and non-wireless. There is an accessory cable for HDMI out, for connecting the iPad to displays. Also comes with smart covers available in polyurethane and leather cases but in many colors. iOS 4.3 that will make safari runs must faster.

Now Apple has iMovie with improved offering. You can play Piano, Hammond B3 organ, guitar - in other words, anything...

So personally, I think Apple has made another mark in post-PC era - first iPod, then iPhone and now iPad. What's next?