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Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is a web hosting setup where a website or application runs across a network of connected servers rather than a single physical machine.

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Definition

Cloud hosting distributes a website's resources across multiple servers, so capacity can scale up or down automatically as traffic changes.

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Why It Matters

Cloud hosting gives websites the ability to handle traffic spikes — like a viral campaign or a big sale — without crashing.

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Real-World Example

AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts a large share of the internet's traffic, including many D2C and media sites that need to scale instantly during high-traffic events.

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How It Connects

Cloud hosting underpins website reliability and page speed — and by extension, SEO and conversion rates.