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Living the Cloud Hosting Lifestyle

Monday, January 21st, 2013

Last week I had the chance to visit Affiliate Summit in Vegas.  Affiliate Summit is an affiliate conference that is hosted a couple times a year where you can meet all the affiliate marketing experts around the world. It was a great opportunity to meet up with some of the top hosting affiliate marketers in the world.  Many of them are living the cloud hosting lifestyle.  In this post I’ll explain what that is and how you can benefit from it!

I was able to meetup with Peter from Hostt where they sponsored an event where we got to race sports cars around a track for some of the top hosting affiliates.  Since I’m in the space I got invited to come out and have a blast.  In total I got to drive 3 different sports cars. Here is one of the cars that I got to rally around the test track.

Lamborgini Aventador LP700-4

cloud hosting perksThis was one of the sweetest rides that I’ve ever ridden in.  I was able to get up to 148 MPH in the short 1/4 mile straight away.  They had another driver in the car so you didn’t wreck it but overall the whole car was under your control.  Not a bad way to spend $440,000.

Lessons Learned

There were a lot of premier hosting affiliates, most of them I knew personally and have relationships with but there were a few people that are referring A LOT of affiliate traffic to Hostgator and Bluehost as well as a few other bigger sites.  I was able to connect with all of these guys and establish real relationships with all of them.  There were some guys there that were doing 10+ accounts a day to the big players, that’s friggin awesome.  I got more insider info there on what they were doing to drive traffic.  There was one guy that had a blog talking about the TV show Shark Tank that was doing 3-4 sales a day, something I would have never thought to go after.

Organization was a little messy on the hosting company that put on the event.  I felt a little bit sad for them cause they spent $50K+ to put on this event and they really didn’t get to spend any time with the people that were in the cars.  They were literally only to talk with 2-3 people as they didn’t have anyone there.  I went out of my way to say thanks but didn’t get a ton of one-on-one time that I would have expected if I’d been putting on the event.  I went to their booth the next day and there were 8+ people there.  Where were they the day before?

Overall this was a killer event that I love writing about.  If you want to become a cloud hosting affiliate baller you need to push yourself to the limits.  You need to come up with interesting ideas and websites that will bring in good traffic. You have to be keeping up with cloud hosting and web hosting trends in general. Save people time and money and you will convert tons of traffic. Some people I met were getting tons of traffic from mobile… this is awesome as not many people are going after that traffic yet it’s converting for them around 30%… HUGE.

Keep on keeping on!

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Why The Cloud Gets you a Real Bang for your Buck!

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

With all the hype surrounding cloud computing and its perceived benefits to small and medium-sized businesses, are there sound reasons why businesses should switch to the cloud? This question can only be answered by comparing cloud-based services and what they have to offer with standalone applications on client machines and what they are unable to offer.

With cloud hosting solutions, businesses have one advantage over standalone  This is scalability of resources. Free hosted solutions like storage, computing power and infrastructure can now be allocated based on need and demand. Standalone services have always been limited by the fact that you pay for what you will not use. The ‘pay for what you use’ model can only be offered by cloud-hosted solutions. This is especially important for companies looking to add resources as they grow.

What other reason exist why businesses should switch to the cloud? The ability to update the existing products and services on standalone is limited by the licenses. Unless the product developer offers free update services, you are stuck with your product or service as it is. Cloud hosted solutions however are not limited in this sense. The fact that services reside in the cloud means that developers can push updates to these products and services without charging an extra dime for it. In most cases, they will not even inform you of the update since it will not be necessary. Every time you access the hosted product or service, you are always assured that you are using the latest update.

With so many cases of cyber crime though, is there a reason to doubt why businesses swith to the cloud? While cyber security has become a big issue, it has to be realized that the same level of risk exists even on standalone systems. Physical access to a computer system can have the same security risk as online access. Fortunately, most cloud service providers hold standard certifications that ensure that they are able to define, architect and support cloud environments for users while maintaining high levels of security.

There are many other reasons why businesses should switch to the cloud and why standalone services will likely not be productive. The adoption of cloud services by the Fortune 500 companies in addition to government agencies is proof that these services do have a return on investment. Companies like Google and Microsoft are offering some of these services at a fraction of the cost it would take to purchase and install these software products on standalone machines. When it comes to cost benefits, it is undeniable that cloud hosting gets businesses a real bang for their buck!

All in all, you may still be asking why businesses should switch to the cloud. Consider the impact that the adoption of technologies like HTML5 that allow you to access online services on literally any device are having. The mobility that these services offer is moving more and more businesses to favor the use of cloud-hosted solutions. It has opened up businesses opportunities for these companies in a way not before possible.

 

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What is all the Cloud Hosting Buzz?

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

‘Cloud’ is the new buzz word in the world of business. Many businesses are moving towards cloud hosting and cloud hosting has become extremely popular in the past few years. The main concept behind cloud hosting is that the resources required for the infrastructure are spread across many servers probably across the world and are rendered on a per need basis. Cloud hosting comes with the benefits of reducing the downtime in case of hardware failures.

In cloud hosting, because the resources can be allocated on a per need basis, scalability becomes a huge advantage over dedicated systems. Also, this also means that load can be managed easily as load can be split on to other servers. Cloud hosting comes with the stress-free management without having to worry about the underlying hardware hosting your environment. Businesses have been moving towards cloud hosting to get rid of the overhead involved in management and maintenance of the dedicated environments. A typical example of cloud hosting is IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) offered by Amazon. Companies and businesses can have their environments hosted on the Amazon servers which are located all over the world. Amazon has been doing IaaS for a few years.

Each server in the cloud helps in carrying out a particular function. In case, one of the servers fail, it is temporarily taken out of the resources pool and another server kicks in to take over the functions of the failed server. Same is true if a site where these servers are located. If the site goes down because of a disaster, another site takes over the functions. The site recovery feature of course depends on the hosting provider and the money paid for the services.   This will also happen in case of an overload condition. The quality of hardware and the quality of service provided (meaning features like disaster recovery, zero downtime) depends on the hosting provider. In case of enterprise level cloud hosting, the hosting providers are generally utilizing high end hardware with Vmware which is considered to be the Rolls Royce version of virtualization and deliver extremely reliable cloud hosting services.

Cloud hosting has come a long way and has completely surpasses dedicated server environment and why not you have multiple servers at your disposal whenever you need instead of a single server in a dedicated environment. In cloud hosting environment, because of the scalability and reliability, the businesses have the benefit of coping up with emergency situations as opposed to dedicated environments. The reduction in downtime and manageability are also some of the main reasons why businesses choose cloud hosting. With the cloud hosting services improving day by day, the cost of these services has come down in the last 4-5 years. Most businesses today want a hassle-free working environment where they can have peace of mind and focus on the business instead of dealing with the everyday dilemma of dedicated environments. The day is not far away when cloud hosting will be the choice of all businesses – big or small.

 

 

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