The cloud is omnipresent these days. Many web-based services you use on a day-to-day basis rely on the cloud. Up until now most websites have been hosted on shared hosting or on dedicated servers, with VPS (or Virtual Private Servers) becoming popular in more recent times. Now cloud hosting is coming into it’s own. First of all

Now that cloud computing is coming of age, the general public, and the business community in general is warming to the idea of moving their software and data to the cloud. Google, more than any other company, is poised to seize this opportunity. Google wants your business’s data and software running on its infrastructure. Google+ is one of its strategies to ensure it succeeds. So what does Google+ mean for business?

This week Amazon made a bold move. They are now offering one years free use of a number of their services to allow you to host a website on their cloud platform.