Cloud hosting

What is cloud hosting?

Cloud hosting is a type of internet hosting that allows you to store your website using cloud resources instead of traditional hosting where your website is hosted on a single server. This type of service has many benefits, including improved security and scalability. You should not upgrade your plan when you need more space or power.

Cloud hosting is more affordable than other types of web hosting such as shared or dedicated servers. If you are looking for an efficient way to host your website, then cloud hosting might be the way to go!

What are the main advantages of a cloud web hosting service?

Buying cloud hosting you get the following benefits:

• No downtime. The loss of one of the servers or a failure in its functionality does not affect the operation of your site.
• Additional resources can be added to improve security and performance.
• Payment is made only for the used resources.
• Flexibility. You can choose the necessary (specific) configuration of resources for the consumption of your site.
• Reliability. Having a network of servers guarantees the stability of your sites, as you can share some kind of “duties” among them.
• Scalability. If there are not enough resources on shared hosting, you have to change the tariff plan. And even the most “cool” tariff still imposes restrictions. There are no such problems in cloud hosting. The cloud can grow with your requests.
• Administration. Often cloud providers offer management services. You get a quality service without bothering with a set of system administrators. It allows you to place your business data in the cloud without being highly qualified in IT technologies.
• A quick response to a search query by search engines contributes to better indexing.

What is the architecture of Hostkey’s cloud hosting service?

When creating a cloud architecture, we focus on our own and international experience in the field of cloud technologies, choosing the most effective solutions:

• geo-distributed data centers;
• enterprise-equipment;
• network equipment (duplicate backbone routers are installed at the network boundary of each cloud site);
• hardware virtualization.

What is the difference between shared hosting and cloud hosting?

Shared hosting is the most common and affordable type of hosting. On shared hosting, many websites share a single physical server's space and resources. Cloud hosting is much more powerful as you get an entire server and don't share its resources with anyone.

What is the difference between VPS and Cloud Hosting?

If it is very important for you to save money, you can use VPS hosting. You will receive a full-fledged server, but it will be in a virtual form. However, there are also disadvantages: poor scalability, insufficient performance, and the need for technical knowledge to set up and operate.

If you need a high-quality, reliable, automated service and your budget allows you to get one, and especially if your projects are large and highly loaded, it’s better to buy cloud hosting. It has almost unlimited performance resources, easy scalability and elasticity, and high availability. You pay only for the used resources.