{"id":24103,"date":"2018-11-29T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.resellerclub.com\/?p=24103"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:24:34","slug":"what-is-cloud-hosting-and-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resellerclub.com\/blog\/what-is-cloud-hosting-and-how-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cloud Hosting Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the \u2018Cloud\u2019 has forever changed how applications, storage and web hosting has worked over the last few years, what exactly the term is and how it works is still lost on many people. This blog tackles this misunderstood question &#8211; what is cloud hosting and how does it work?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24105\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cloud-computing-2444290_960_720.png\" alt=\"Cloud Hosting\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\"><\/p>\n<h4><strong>What is \u2018Cloud Hosting\u2019?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In traditional web hosting, a website is supported by a single server. In \u2018Cloud hosting\u2019 on the other hand, a website is supported by hundreds of servers working together as one. This cluster of servers together is termed the \u2018Cloud\u2019. This set up makes hosting on the cloud more flexible than hosting on any other hosting model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>How Cloud Hosting works\/ the Advantages of Cloud Hosting &#8211;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>If there is an outage in one server, another takes over, ensuring zero downtime<\/li>\n<li>Thus, this also ensures that a cloud hosting set up has a near unlimited ability to handle traffic spikes of any magnitude<\/li>\n<li>Customers visiting your website will face no issue and you will see no drop in your website visits\/conversions, also contributing to the maintenance of a healthy search engine rank<\/li>\n<li>You pay only for the resources that you consume<\/li>\n<li>You can scale up on demand<br \/>\nVirtually, the processing power is unlimited as you can always add a new server and scale up- provides great flexibility and scalability, making it easy to upgrade or downgrade your hosting environment and accommodate for periods of higher or lower traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All of this makes cloud hosting a powerful solution for large, high-traffic internet sites and applications that require the highest level of performance.<\/p>\n<p>You may have already guessed that managing a cloud hosting solution is not a simple process. It takes the skills of an experienced Linux server administrator or IT professional, so it\u2019s not a good solution for most small businesses or do-it-yourselfers. Before you opt for cloud hosting, be sure to weigh its pros and cons against your online needs, budget, and business goals.<\/p>\n<p>While there are several providers that offer hosting via cloud servers, few offer a unique Cloud Hosting solution for web professionals on a budget. At ResellerClub, our <a href=\"https:\/\/india.resellerclub.com\/cloud-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud Hosting solution<\/a> combines many of the benefits of Cloud Hosting with the simplicity of Shared Hosting.<\/p>\n<p>With our Cloud Hosting offering, web professionals receive:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1. The ability to upgrade your resources with a single click as you need it<\/strong><br \/>\nWith upgradable RAM and CPU along with a free cPanel dashboard<br \/>\n<strong>2. Fully Managed Hosting<\/strong><br \/>\nOur Cloud Hosting experts will handle any hardware &amp; OS upgrades, security fixes, etc.<br \/>\n<strong>3. A Powerful caching with Varnish<\/strong><br \/>\nVarnish Cache is a powerful web application that will speed up your websites by 1000%.<br \/>\n<strong>4. Ceph Storage<\/strong><br \/>\nCeph Storage provides 3N redundancy which ensures that no single point of failure can affect your data in the Cloud.<br \/>\n<strong>5. Quick Install<\/strong><br \/>\nAn Easy, 1-click installer from Softaculous for over 400+ apps including WordPress, WHMCS, OpenCart, Magenta, etc.<br \/>\n<strong>6. 30-day money-back<\/strong><br \/>\nA guaranteed refund if you\u2019re not satisfied<br \/>\n<strong>7. 24X7 support<\/strong><br \/>\nAll day support along with a dedicated account manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoyed this blog on what Cloud Hosting is and how it works. What are you waiting for? 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