Cloud hosting allows websites and applications to be accessed using internet-based (“cloud”) resources. Unlike traditional hosting, in which website and application resources are kept on individual servers, cloud hosting spreads the data across a network of interconnected servers, often spanning a wide geographical area.
Many of the websites and applications we visit daily (such as LinkedIn, Spotify and Pinterest) use cloud hosting. Many of these will use popular cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. Cloudways users can choose from these providers at their leisure.
A website or application benefits from cloud hosting in a number of ways, including: increased server uptime (as multiple servers mean there’s no single point of failure), quick and easy scalability (so resources like storage and RAM can be scaled as needed), more robust security (with multi-layered protection against threats such as DDoS attacks) and enhanced website speed and performance. When it comes to cloud hosting, it’s important to use a managed hosting service like Cloudways to make website hosting simple, convenient and hassle-free.
Under traditional hosting architecture, the data of several websites and vendors is often housed on a single server in a centralized system; in this case, the server may be located on-site at the client’s location or off-site in the data center of the host provider. However, the decentralized method used by cloud hosting architecture allows data to be stored across a large geographic region on a network of connected physical and virtual servers (cloud servers).
