All that you need to know about Geo hosting
Suppose you want to order a Pizza at your place and there are two pizza outlets. One is at 20 minutes distance and the other one at an hour’s distance. Which one would you prefer?
Until you have an exceptional reason, you will obviously go for the delivery option which takes lesser time. The same analogy applies to the scenario when you are hosting a website. One of the foremost concerns anyone has while hosting his/her website is that it must be accessible with high speed. This is where the concept of Geo hosting has gathered publicity. Out of the two famous and prominent website hosting techniques, viz, Cloud hosting and geo hosting, Geo hosting gives a much better speed for the website to be accessed.
As the name indicates, the Geo hosting technique is geographically diverse in execution. In simpler terms, for instance you are trying to access a website from India; the website would be accessible from the server that is geographical nearest to India. This in turn makes sure that the website it accessible at a faster speed as compared to when the website would have been accessible from a server placed in US or UK. Another key feature of geo hosting is the high security. The geo hosting technique provides top notch security due to its support to the SSH (Secure Shell) data transfers. SSH can further secure data when it’s moved from one server to another. While on the other hand, the cloud hosting technique does not support the SSH data transfer feature.
After the fast speed and security, the next feature that the website owner would look for is cost effectiveness. Even at the front of cost effectiveness, geo hosting technique seems to beat the cloud hosting. The primary reason behind this is that while the prices of cloud hosting technique are always fluctuating, the geo hosting prices are constant. This also means that there are not hidden costs in the case of geo hosting. The geo hosting technique is widely recommended to the small and medium who would like to make frequent updates to their websites along with getting a faster email access to their accounts. A geo hosting technique can handle both the static as well as the dynamic kinds of websites. Another salient feature of geo hosting is the instant uploads it provides due to higher accessible speeds.