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Cloud hosting is a type of web hosting and one of the best web hosting ways. Cloud hosting connects multiple servers simultaneously; hence it has great power of accessibility. The connected servers are known as a ‘cluster” or ‘cloud’ and helps the users to utilize only that cloud as a source of resource. All features like security, speed, power, hard drives and memory are shared on a hosting website similar to that of like Ecommerce hosting.

It is used not only for fulfilling the requirements of the users but also for many other reasons such as:

· Scalability: this helps in adding the resources or subtracting them without the hassle of moving to another server. This flexibility is very helpful and makes it cost efficient.

· Uptime: cloud hosting provides you with better uptime as compared to the traditional hosting services. This enables the site to not go down in its availability and ensures that your business remains progressive.

· Most of the web sites when visited a lot by the customers cannot handle the overflow of traffic and therefore they crash down. But with cloud hosting these problems do not occur. It is supported by many servers that absorb the flow of traffic of visitors to the website.

The two main factors that affect web hosting and performance of your website are server load and bandwidth. Bandwidth means the available network capacity, maximum traffic that a website can handle.

On internet you are using bandwidth to transfer files from one from one place to another. Bandwidth acts as pipes from which information flows. When you book space on server of any company they will provide specific bandwidth for your website. Bandwidth affects the downloading speed of website so you should choose a company providing satisfactory bandwidth for proper functioning of website.

Server load refers to CPU utilization. When there are so many websites running on same server or more users are accessing the website then CPU need to process all the requests, so it will take more time to process your website. This will result in slow downloading speed and unresponsive server. So while choosing a hosting service provider you should take care that the server must be of high power and company should not put much load on the server.

So you must ask about bandwidth and server load before choosing a shared hosting provider. All these problems can be solved with cloud hosting and dedicated server hosting.