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Dirik Hameed
Cloud hosting is a form of online hosting that utilises a network of servers combined together. People use the term 'cloud' or 'cluster' to refer to the combined servers. The benefit of this 'cloud' is that all the users on the servers can make use of all the servers' resources. Cloud hosting involves the sharing of several features such as power, processing speed, memory and hard drives. Cloud hosting generally offers better uptime than traditional web hosting since resource usage is handled through many servers, so if one server goes down this often doesn't affect users. With cloud hosting shopping websites don't need to fret over lost customers as a result of site downtime, as the remaining servers will keep a site running if one server stops working. Sometimes there is downtime if there is a problem in the server network and servers can't communicate with each other, but generally the network is monitored often, with regular backups and security checks. Cloud hosts will measure compute cycles during cloud hosting, which measure how long various processing tasks take. These measurements help users to save money as the cloud host only bills them for the resources they have use or require. Through a cloud hosting plan the cloud hosts allocate a set resource amount to users and bill them according to the resource amount utilised. If they exceed their resource allocation, then they are billed at a set rate for each gigabyte of data and bandwidth they use. By these means people can drive site traffic and the like in the knowledge that their hosting package will handle it. Cloud hosting offers great scalability where the user can add or remove resources whenever they want to. The ease of scalability helps users to control both their spending and their virtual environment to suit their needs. A business can therefore for example keep its business application dedicated server separate while testing a new website through the services of a cloud host. Users don't need to install hardware or download software as they can instead access it through one of the servers on the 'cloud'. UK cloud hosts and cloud hosting allow different technologies to be used together that regular hosting doesn't permit. As an example, increased user flexibility is offered through 'cloud' technologies allowing .php and .asp files to be used simultaneously. Another benefit offered by a cloud host is that through outsourcing its IT infrastructure a company can free up physical space on its business premises. It also means the company doesn't need to have as many in-house technical staff, and also that they can save money on electricity bills. Companies can enjoy many resources through frequently upgraded cloud hosting infrastructure without having to do any upgrading themselves as the cloud hosts do the upgrading.
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