Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product where shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices over the network. It provides computation, software, data access and storage resources without requiring the cloud users to know the location and further details of the infrastructure.

It is a centralized technology which involves scalable and virtualized resources as a service over the Internet. Cloud server hosting services are delivered from a cluster of network web servers. It has eased out the process of installing particular applications. It is more efficient with one of its prime features as it has centralized storage, memory, processors and bandwidth allocation.

Cloud server hosting solutions also reduce the overhead cost of server hardware and other applications suitable for companies looking forward to cutting their expenditure. It can also be defined as fully redundant and multiserver systems which are easily scalable and can be virtualized on demand.

Generally, a cloud-hosted website operates on multiple connected servers. Instead of being limited to a single server, the website has access to various servers, and the processing power is unlimited as you can always add a new server and scale it up.

The technology is highly scalable, so website expansions can be done with minimum limitations. Cost is another huge plus point if you need a lot of processing power because hosting companies will charge users according to the computing power consumed.

Three unique characteristics set cloud hosting apart from other hosting.

1. The first factor is that cloud hosting is sold on demand, and the service is elastic, meaning the user can have as much assistance as he wants. Finally, the service is fully managed by the provider.
2. The importance of cloud hosting has increased considerably because of significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, besides enhanced access to high-speed internet.
3. The service is an aggregation of computer resources into a single bucket and the ability to treat that bucket as a single resource shared between applications. The resources can be processed, stored, and networked, and as they get aggregated into the bucket, they form a cloud.

Benefits of Cloud Server Hosting:

• Robust tools for managed hosting – A Hosting account comes with powerful tools to manage the virtual server
  Easily scalable – Servers can be scaled in real-time.
  Affordable – You can choose your server configuration based on your requirements. So, you will be paying only for the resource you use.

Technical features:

• The Cloud computing environment consists of multiple servers. The processing load is distributed across the servers. So, it gives high performance.
• Load balancing of the servers, which provides high performance and data security.
• High availability of servers
• Fast provisioning of an account using a pre-configured OS.