Challenges with traditional hosting

In traditional web hosting, you need to purchase additional resources as the website traffic grows. It is a very expensive and complex proposition to keep websites highly available and scalable. To achieve this, you have to implement complex solutions that will ensure a high level of availability, and also require you to implement accurate traffic forecasts to provide a high level of customer service. Sometimes, there is low utilization of your expensive hardware because of less traffic to your website, which means that you are maintaining idle or underused hardware, with high operating costs.

For example, you can go for shared hosting if your website has 10,000 users. In the same way, you can go for dedicated ...

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