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DanielDP
Cloud hosting is a hosting method in which web applications are hosted in a cloud computing environment. So instead of dedicated hosting (a set of computing servers is dedicated to an application) or shared hosting (multiple applications share a set of computing servers), cloud hosting deploys applications in virtual machines or containers over a cloud service delivery model (SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS) with some guaranteed availability and performance isolation. Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and Microsoft Azure are examples of cloud hosting services.
Cloud computing on the other hand is the set of technologies that powers cloud hosting. It basically allows computational (compute, storage, and network) resources to be rented, provisioned, and consumed on-demand over the Internet on a pay-per-user basis. These resources can be packaged and delivered at varying level (SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS) depending on your service requirements and how much control you want to wield. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace are leading cloud computing providers.
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