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What is Cloud Web Hosting?
Cloud web hosting is a type of web hosting that combines the resources of several clustered servers. Basically, this means that your website uses many servers to provide as of the resources as your site may need. The load is balanced, security is taken care of and hardware resources are available virtually so they can be used when needed. The cluster of servers is the cloud.
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Centex Hosting
- 50 GB SSD
- 150 GB Bandwith
- Unlimited Hosted Domains
- Cpanel
- 24/7 Email + LiveChat Support
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HostingSource
From $5.00
Digital Ocean
SSD cloud servers start under $0.01/hour or $5/mo. for 512MB RAM and 20GB SSD disk space. Deploy in 55 seconds.Advantages of Cloud Web Hosting
- Reliability; rather than being hosted on one single instance of a physical server, your website is hosted on a virtual partition which draws its resources, such as disk space, from an extensive network of underlying physical servers. If one server goes offline, it dilutes the level of resource available to the cloud a little but will have no effect on the availability of the website whose virtual server will continue to pull resource from the remaining network of servers. Some cloud platforms could even survive an entire data center going offline as the pooled cloud resource is drawn from multiple data centers in different locations to spread out the risk.
- Physical Security; the underlying physical servers are still housed within data centers and so benefit from the security measures that those facilities implement to prevent people accessing or disrupting them on-site.
- Scalability and Flexibility; resource is available in real time on demand and not limited to the physical constraints/capacity of one server. If a client’s site demands extra resource from its hosting platform due to a spike in visitor traffic or the implementation of new functionality, the resource is accessed seamlessly. Even when using a private cloud model the service can often be allowed to ‘burst’ to access resources from the public cloud for non-sensitive processing if there are surges in activity on the site.