What is Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is a common term among web hosts, so what exactly is cloud hosting and what makes it so great compared to regular web hosting?

What is Cloud Hosting

You might already have heard of cloud hosting before, but never regarded this process as “cloud hosting” before. Some great examples of websites that make use of cloud hosting are Wikipedia and Google. Can you already guess what cloud hosting is? You probably guessed it the instant I said Wikipedia. Cloud hosting is an innovative technology generally incorporated by large sites that use a lot of resources. The idea is, if one web server begins to fry, the other server will act as a replacement of the previous one and add additional resources for your using. In essence, it is like a double backup in case your web servers someday fall weak. Did you know that in 2008, Wikipedia generated well over 7 million page views every month? How many servers did you think Wikipedia needed to fully host their entire database of information? It took about 400 x86 servers according to blog.sun at the time of 2008.

It is not often that you see large corporate websites that generate over 7 million page views like Wikipedia, however, web hosts still incorporate this technology because of it’s absolute beauty of being a convenience. Most often when you run into a web host offering cloud hosting, you are sharing the extra servers with other web owners as well. Basically, cloud hosting creates flexibility whenever there is a spike in resource usage, and when the usage settles down, the extra server parts away and now again becomes available to general public webmasters who are in the web server. It is sort of like an extra server that will back up your website whenever your site needs the extra resources or your previous web server completely shut down.

The main benefits of cloud hosting is that when you register with a web host that offers cloud hosting, most of the time you don’t have to worry about web resources because there are surplus resources to be burned without the extra cost. This is ideally a great technology for web owners who plan on making their site open source, where users can make their own web page, add videos, and etc, like a social networking site. The ideas are endless with cloud hosting, and the only difference between regular web shared web hosting to cloud hosting, is that there is a sheer amount of money differentiation involved, but apart from that, you get to enjoy more resources with the reassurance that your site will be backed up whenever a problem occurs.