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🌐 What is Cloud Storage?

Cloud Storage is a service that allows you to save and manage your data (files, documents, databases, backups, and more) on remote servers that are hosted in a data center and accessed over the internet. Instead of keeping everything on a single physical device (like your laptop or a local server), your data is securely stored in the cloud, where it can be easily accessed, managed, and shared from anywhere in the world.


πŸ”‘ Key Features of Cloud Storage:

  • Accessibility – Access your files anytime, from any device with an internet connection.

  • Scalability – Quickly scale your storage up or down depending on your needs, without buying new hardware.

  • Reliability – Cloud storage providers use redundant systems, ensuring your data is safe even if one server fails.

  • Cost-Efficiency – Pay only for the storage you use instead of investing in expensive on-premises infrastructure.

  • Collaboration – Share files and work with team members in real-time, no matter where they are located.

  • Security – Data is encrypted and protected against unauthorized access with enterprise-grade security standards.


πŸ’‘ Example in Practice:

  • Personal use: Storing photos, videos, or documents on services like Google Drive or Dropbox.

  • Business use: Hosting backups, large data sets, or application files on enterprise-grade platforms like KEKhost Cloud Storage, AWS S3, or Azure Storage.

Which Cloud Storage type is most suitable for your data?

Great question! Here’s a quick, practical guide to help you pick the right KEKhost Cloud Storage type based on your workload, performance needs, and budget.

Quick Selector

  • Need simple file shares for teams or archives? β†’ Maxi (File)

  • General-purpose apps, DBs, or VDIs with steady performance? β†’ Valu-S (File/Block)

  • Latency-sensitive, high-IOPS databases or heavy VDI? β†’ PerforM (File/Block)

  • Mass-scale data lakes, backups, SaaS assets, AI artifacts? β†’ K-Standard3 (Object)

What to choose (at a glance)

Workload / Need
Best Fit
Why
Team folders, shared libraries, collaboration, backups
Maxi (File)
Simple file access, ~500 IOPS, 95% <10 ms latency, up to 1 TB; great value at $0.09/GB/mo.
App data, transactional DBs (moderate), production apps, VDIs
Valu-S (File/Block)
Balanced price/perf, ~8k IOPS, 95% <2 ms, up to 5 TB; 500 GB commit; $0.18/GB/mo.
High-perf DBs, write-heavy services, large VDIs, low-latency apps
PerforM (File/Block)
~30k IOPS, 95% <1 ms, up to 5 TB; 500 GB commit; $0.35/GB/mo.
Object/bucket storage for SaaS, backups, logs, ML/AI repos
K-Standard3 (Object)
Unlimited per bucket, ideal for scale-out; pricing: Commit $0.0235 / On-Demand $0.0250 per GB/mo; commit min 500 GB (0 on-demand).

How to decide

  1. Access pattern

    • POSIX/file shares β†’ File (Maxi / Valu-S / PerforM)

    • Block volumes for VMs/DBs β†’ Block (Valu-S / PerforM)

    • API/object (S3-style) at scale β†’ Object (K-Standard3)

  2. Performance

    • <10 ms & light I/O β†’ Maxi

    • <2 ms & mid I/O (~8k IOPS) β†’ Valu-S

    • ~1 ms & high I/O (~30k IOPS) β†’ PerforM

    • Throughput/scale over IOPS β†’ K-Standard3

  3. Capacity & cost

    • Tight budgets / team files β†’ Maxi

    • Best value for general apps β†’ Valu-S

    • Premium performance β†’ PerforM

    • Lowest $/GB at scale β†’ K-Standard3 (Commit)

Common scenarios

  • Microsoft 365/Google Workspace file mirrors, project shares β†’ Maxi

  • Mid-tier MySQL/Postgres, ERP/line-of-business apps β†’ Valu-S

  • Latency-critical OLTP, high-concurrency DB/VDI farms β†’ PerforM

  • Long-term backups, logs, media, ML artifacts, CDN origins β†’ K-Standard3


If you’d like, I can turn this into a website-ready β€œchooser” widget (a short quiz that outputs a recommendation + mailto to websales@kekhost.com), or embed it as a responsive comparison block matching your current design.