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Whether you’re planning your first website or are a seasoned veteran with dozens under your belt, every website owner faces the important question of which web hosting provider to choose. Finding and choosing one of the best web hosting services for your needs isn’t easy, not least because you have a lot of different options to choose from. Learning about them all is overwhelming.

To help with that task, this article will outline one of the biggest players in the hosting space to consider: AWS hosting.

AWS hosting: What is it?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is something you’re probably aware of, but not everyone knows what AWS does and how important it is to the modern internet. 

Most of the best web hosting services rely on AWS in at least some capacity, and many of them are essentially just resellers of AWS services. In this article, we’ll look at what AWS is and take a more focused look at AWS hosting, one of the types of services AWS offers. 

What is cloud computing?

Early internet services essentially ran on standalone servers. Remote computers would directly contact a single server to request a webpage, for example. But this type of system scaled poorly, with servers…

a) Dedicated cloud environment-CPU, RAM, and disk resources are 100% dedicated. Your resources are yours and yours only. Other users on the same server cannot degrade the performance of your website or service.

b) Security-VPS offers much higher security because the entire server is dedicated and there is no risk that another website on the same server will be used for data breaches. Fully managed services make your work much easier because website owners don’t have to worry about software updates, security, and routine server management tasks. No matter how much the accounts are separated, hackers can try local exploits to compromise other accounts or the entire server when compared to traditional hosting that shares the same OS kernel and software. Local access to the OS makes…

One of the obstacles to cloud hosting adoption has been the increased technical demand on users, which could be difficult for smaller companies to surmount without significant specialized talent acquisition or outsourcing.

This was one of the very things that pushed managed cloud VPS hosting firm ScalaHosting to partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and introduce SPanel, offering users an intuitive interface for Cloud VPS management. 

One of the obstacles to cloud hosting adoption has been the increased technical demand on users, which could be difficult for smaller companies to surmount without significant specialized talent acquisition or outsourcing.

This was one of the very things that pushed managed cloud VPS hosting firm ScalaHosting to partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and introduce SPanel, offering users an intuitive interface for Cloud VPS management.