What makes cloud hosting different
Cloud hosting distributes your site or app across a pool of servers instead of one physical machine, which makes it easier to scale resources up or down and improves resilience if a single node fails.
Who actually needs it
Teams running variable-traffic apps, SaaS products, or anything that needs to scale automatically during traffic spikes. If your traffic is steady and predictable, a well-sized VPS is usually simpler and cheaper.
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