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I'm starting out in IT, and one of the hardest things to do in my job is to explain technical terms that I've learnt and been trained about, to people with no IT training whatsoever.

I was stuck trying to explain cloud hosting to a client recently, and though it took me a while to perfect it, I eventually came up with the best way of getting it to make sense.

A cloud hosted-website is a website that operates on more than one connected server - like a network - rather than being limited to a single server in more traditional hosting. This way, the virtual processing power is unlimited as you can always expand by adding one or more new servers and expanding the 'cloud'.

That one wasn't too hard, but if I have to explain anything too complicated in the future I might take a few minutes to collect my thoughts and prepare first so I don't just throw a load of technical jargon at them!

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