Analysis of Cloud and Self-Web-Hosting Services Based on Security Parameters

Abstract

Most of the web applications are hosted by cloud due to low cost and low infrastructure setup required. In this paper, the technology, self web hosting, and cloud web hosting are compared based on different security parameters like key generation (PKI), automatic authentication and protection of intra-tenant networks, secure logging system events, spam filtering, CAPTCHA generation and authentication, and software widgets such as password metering. These parameters are classified into seven categories, and the review has been conducted based on these categories. The bibliometric analysis has been conducted with more than 70 studies found in Web of Science (WoS) database through bibliometric library and biblioshine package in R programming. The outcome of this analysis is presented in tabular form, and open challenges of both the technologies are discussed in detail with proposed solutions.