What is cloud hosting?

Cloud Hosting (often also referred to as clustered hosting) is a step up from the shared hosting infrastructure that is commonly used today. Generally, website hosted on a cloud hosting operates on a clustered servers where online operations are not limited to a single server. By handling security, load balancing and server resources virtually you are no longer restricted to the limits of one physical piece of hardware. In basic terms, online operations are not limited to a single server, they have access to the processing power of a number of servers that are distributed in real time.

Benefits of cloud hosting

Cloud hosting benefits the users from various angles. It’s scalability and cost efficient is the commonly known advantages.

A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is done by splitting a server so that each virtual server can run their own full-fledged operating system, and main thing is each server can be independently rebooted. Since a VPS runs its own copy of its operating system, so user can have superuser-level access to the operating system instance, and can install almost any software that runs on the OS.

Virtual private servers bridge the gap between shared web hosting services and dedicated hosting services, providing independence from other users of the VPS service in terms of software but at a lower cost than a physical dedicated server.