Cloud web hosting is not designed solely around a single program. It is instead a method of networking computers and servers together locally, nationally, or globally so that performance is better for the consumers and the hosts themselves.

Since being actively introduced in the mid-2,000’s, cloud networking has been used successfully online by Amazon and Google to allow their consumers faster downloading speeds because they are accessing the information locally. This also allows the networker to be cost and energy effective because they are not storing unused processing power for peak times in one storage facility but minimizing it across multiple global facilities.

The method of cloud computing is also evolving in local networks. Universities and public facilities are becoming aware of cloud networking as a method for low cost and high performance computing. Instead of spending millions on super computers, an affordable alternative is investing in a cloud computing network where the linked idle processing power allows for equally large calculations and simulations to be computed.