What is Cloud Hosting?

What is Cloud Hosting?

When it comes to web hosting, one buzz word keeps circulating – The Cloud! Cloud hosting is the latest trend of the hosting industry, and it is constantly heralded as the next phase in computing services. We will do our best to demystify this concept for you.

So, what is cloud hosting all about?

Cloud hosting is a way to create an extremely customizable hosting environment. Cloud Hosting Services provides virtual servers, which exist on an infrastructure of physical web servers. Using this method, users and businesses can “lease” the services they require, without investing in their own hardware. This type of service follows the school of computing resources as a service – just like electricity or gas. With cloud computing or cloud hosting, you can choose exactly which services you need, and modify these services in the future, as your needs and hosting requirements alter.

Some Indian hosting companies provide cloud hosting services, mainly to small and medium-sized businesses, due to the clear advantages they offer:

Reliability

In cloud-style hosting, your data is not hosted on one single server, but rather on an infrastructure of a physical server network. If one of those servers goes offline, it might reduce some of the available resources on that cloud, but your site will remain online, completely, or mostly unaffected.

Some cloud hosting providers have data centers in different locations, which means even your data will be available even one of these facilities go down completely. This is a benefit that can’t …

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