Cloud Hosting

The cloud hosting is just hosting by another name: your site runs on servers owned, powered, and maintained by someone else, somewhere else, and you rent the capacity you need.

Despite the name, it is just rooms full of real machines in someone else's building. However, unlike the hosting you might have on premises, cloud hosting promises more reliable uptime due to layers of redundancy.

The appeal is that you do not buy or maintain the hardware. You pay for what you use, scale up when traffic spikes, and let the provider handle the physical infrastructure. This contrasts with on-premise setups, where you own the servers and the responsibility for them. Most modern projects run somewhere in the cloud; the question is usually which provider and how much they manage for you.