The Benefits of Cloud Hosting
There are a lot of different hosting options to choose from when getting your website up and running. Shared hosting offers a budget-friendly approach for smaller web pages, while dedicated servers give you the ultimate power and resources for complex sites. But if you need something that’s more in the middle, cloud hosting is your best choice. With your website hosted in the cloud, you get a variety of benefits that physical hosting options just can’t provide.
What is Cloud Hosting?
Cloud hosting is a relatively new way to host websites that has taken off since it was first used. Instead of hosting your website on a physical server, a server is, in a way, created in the cloud by connecting parts of many physical servers together. This creates a virtualized, dynamically scalable structure with the best speed, reliability, pricing, and convenience hosting options offer. When you choose to host in the cloud, you’re getting a cost-effective hosting plan that secures your data and provides quick and easy changes to your account.
Cloud Hosting Benefits
Choosing cloud hosting for your website provides you with many benefits you can’t get from physical hosting options. Everything from security to flexibility is improved when you host on the cloud.
Safety and Security
One of the main draws of cloud hosting is the increased security it provides. The added safety applies to both physical and digital threats that regular servers can face.
Physical Protection – Cloud hosting offers increased protection against physical server damage because there isn’t a physical server to damage. Servers can overheat or break down, causing loss of data and instability of website connection. But because cloud servers are made from connections to physical servers, they can sever that connection whenever something goes wrong and pick up a new one on a healthy server.
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Digital Protection – When you host all of your data on one physical server, you open yourself up to the potential of digital hacking. While many security measures are always in place to protect your website when you host, there’s still the potential for digital issues to occur. However, when you host in the cloud, it’s a lot harder for hackers and other digital threats to penetrate your security measures. This protects your data and keeps your personal information safe.
Cloud hosting offers the most robust security available and is the best way to ensure your website is well-protected when you host.
Customization and Flexibility
Cloud hosting is the perfect option for businesses or brands that need to fluctuate their hosting resources. Because your server is made from connections to physical servers, it’s quick and easy to change those connections to take advantage of other hardware and software available. With traditional physical servers, you’re often stuck with what you have, which can get costly if you’re paying for unused resources half the time. Cloud hosting is perfect for businesses like:
Wedding planners who see seasonal trends in website traffic and need additional power to keep up without having to spend extra money during the off-season.
Online stores that regularly push out sales or other events that can see increased traffic for which they need to provide the resources.
Seasonal stores that need to keep their website online all year long but that only really see a lot of activity during one particular event, such as a Halloween costume store.
Cloud hosting lets you quickly and easily upgrade or downgrade your resources, so you’re always getting exactly what your website needs.
Cloud Hosting Options
Once you’ve decided to go the cloud hosting route, you’ll still need to choose how you’ll want your hosting experience to run. If you want to do it all yourself, you can get a cost-friendly unmanaged cloud hosting plan. But if it’s your first time hosting, or you don’t want to have to worry about keeping track of everything, you can also get a managed cloud hosting plan.
When you purchase a managed hosting option, you can focus on the rest of your business with the knowledge that your website is being taken care of. A managed cloud server means you have even more protection against common website dangers. A technician will check your connections to ensure everything is running smoothly. They’ll also perform regular backups to ensure your data is safe and will alert you to any issues that arise. With a managed cloud hosting plan, you’ll never have to try and figure out any of the tech yourself, and your website will always be up-to-date and running as efficiently as possible.
Cloud Hosting with HostForWeb
At HostForWeb, we pride ourselves on providing the best hosting experience possible. Whether it’s your first time hosting a website or you’re a veteran hoster looking for a better platform, we’re here to support you. Our cloud hosting options provide the ultimate speed, security, and flexibility your website needs, with both managed and unmanaged plans available. When you host with us, you get access to our 24/7 customer support center with trained and knowledgeable experts who can help you at any step along the way. If you’re ready to experience a better hosting solution and get your website up in the cloud, browse our available cloud hosting packages online or give us a call at 1-833-201-8322 for more information.
