With an increased number of people turning to the Internet to purchase or to get information about a product or service from a business, it is important to make sure that your website is always active.
It’s easy to see how uptime or page load time can impact a visitor’s experience. Server response time though, is just one component of each of these higher level metrics, one possibly overlooked when optimizing a website.
If you haven’t heard of the term ‘cloud computing’ yet (where have you been?), think of the cloud as simply a metaphor for the internet. It’s a catch-all term for storing data or completing tasks through off-site servers.