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Difference between cloud hosting and vps hosting

Author: Sunil Singh
by Sunil Singh
Posted: Aug 22, 2017

Cloud has been more widely utilized because of its capacity to maximize benefits and minimize risks by providing enterprise-level solutions at costs that is sufficiently reasonable. Cloud facilitating can have huge effect for start-up firms given that it can get your business up and running in a flash and further boost your business. With cloud, business pioneers don’t need to stress over running short on assets at it gives you a chance to scale resource capacity according to your necessities. Accordingly, we say cloud develops with your developing business.

Here in this post you will find clear information about Cloud hosting and VPS hosting and the difference between the two:

  • In a Cloud Hosting if a physical server fails, then there is an option of migrating cloud servers into another physical server without experiencing an outage ; in VPS hosting this is not available.Here it is seen that when any physical server fails all the VPSs on that server fails.

  • A cloud platform has multiple servers, so customers has the benefit of having unlimited storage, maximum bandwidth, managed load balancing service ; in VPS hosting storage is based on physical server limitations. Once the customer reach the maximum VPS capacity, he has to buy more space or look for some other options.

  • In cloud hosting one will be only paying for the services which he has used ;in VPS hosting if the traffic suddenly goes down the customer will end up also paying for the space he has not used.

  • Cloud server is scalable, one can add more resources to the server like RAM,processors for data backup ; VPS is not scalable in this regard.

  • Cloud hosting is more complex than Virtual Private Server Hosting in terms of configuration ; in VPS hosting as the server partition is isolated and the data is stored in one centralized location, one can customize and configure the environment exactly how they want.

  • Cloud Hosting is highly flexible and the resources are spread across multiple machines making it highly available ; the flexibilty feature is not available in VPS hosting.

  • Cloud hosting is most suitable for businesses where there are chances of unpredictable traffic and high resource usage while VPS hosting is most suitable for businesses with predictable traffic.

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Author: Sunil Singh

Sunil Singh

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