COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WORKING ON A HOST MACHINE, CLOUD MACHINE AND VIRTUAL MACHINE

Now days there exist several ways to develop your code either on a host machine, cloud machine and virtual machine. This paper will help you to understand the various available options and make the right choice for your application. We can install virtual machines without hampering the stability of native host machine. One can work on n number of platforms with the help of VMs. However, correctly configuring, securing, and maintaining VMs requires much more time and IT expertise compared to Cloud Services. In this paper some application and code development such as website maintenance and PHP code development on native host (Windows 7 - WAMP Server), cloud machine such as IBM Blue Mix and virtual machine (Ubuntu) are compared on the basis of qualitative and quantitative measures.