What is cloud hosting?

[MarcS]

A Cloud hosting means the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers.

Benefits:

- High Up-time and Availability
- Automated Updates on Software
- Flexible Pricing Structure
- Decrease Your Overall Environmental Impact
- Speedy Server Setup Process

[HeavenlyBorn]

Cloud hosting is the procurement of computing resources from a cloud computing provider or facility to host data, services and/or solutions.

Cloud hosting is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud delivery model that provides a suite of remote/virtual services. These are delivered on an on-demand basis and hosted on top of a cloud computing infrastructure.

[Advertiser]

Would you say this has better uptime/less down time in general?

[johnmiller445]

In cloud hosting, hundred of individual servers work together so that it looks like one giant server. It’s the advanced hosting plan and can be cost-effective when compared with other hosting types. It offers nearly unlimited ability to handle high traffic or traffic spikes.

You don’t depend on only one server – even if one server is broken, the others will backup its data and processes and no downtime will appear.

Pros:

Advanced automated redundancy freely scalable servers
Flexible and Cost Efficient
Unlimited Ability to Handle Traffic Spikes