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SolarWinds IT Management Glossary

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What is Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is a form of hosting solution where the service provider places the hosted data or applications in a cloud environment rather than on dedicated servers. Cloud hosting allows users to avoid costly over-provisioning. Cloud hosting can also be combined with dedicated hosting to create a hybrid hosting environment.

SolarWinds FREE Tools Related to Cloud Hosting

VM Console

What do you do when a virtual machine is running amuck—or not running at all—and you just want to restart it without slogging through vCenter™ or vSphere™? With our free VM Console you can bounce that blue-screened troublemaker, track up/down status, take snapshots of all your VMs, and more!

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VM Monitor

Track virtualization health at-a-glance with X-ray vision into your ESX Servers! Our free VM Monitor continuously monitors a VMware ESX Server and its virtual machines and delivers detailed virtual machine health statistics including VM name, guest OS, and VM state, as well as processor, memory, and network usage.

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SolarWinds Products Related to Cloud Hosting

Virtualization Manager

Virtualization Manager makes it easy to manage all the aspects of your virtual infrastructure by providing the tools to control VM sprawl, eliminate bottlenecks, optimize performance, track configuration changes, manage capacity, and track and showback departmental and business unit usage and costs. Learn More »