Nowadays, hosting providers offer a buffet of different hosting types. It can be overwhelming at times to understand each and every one of them. How each functions, their features, advantages, and which works perfectly for your website. In this article, we compare Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting. Before we begin with the comparison, let’s first start with understanding each of these hosting types.
VPS Hosting
Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting gives you your own partitioned server. It allows high customization and configuration for your partition to make it exactly the way you want it. Although, you share the main server with a number of other users, you have your own allocated resources. It’s a middle ground between Shared and Dedicated Hosting.
Cloud Hosting
Cloud Hosting is where the resources needed for hosting and running your website are divided and distributed across multiple servers. These multiple servers are clustered together to form a Cloud. All these servers come together to function as a single powerful server which is highly reliable and infinitely scalable. The main benefit of Cloud Hosting is virtualization. Each virtual server in Cloud Hosting is programmable like any other software. With this, the hosting can become extremely responsive to business and website needs as you can create or destroy virtual servers at a click of a button.
Now that we understand these hosting types, let’s look at how they stack up against various parameters:
Cloud Hosting Or VPS Hosting?
| Cloud Hosting | VPS Hosting | |
| Performance | Performance can be scaled by simple resource addition and removal. But, since resources are shared over the cloud the performance is lower.. | In VPS Hosting you do not have to share your hosting resources such as CPU, RAM, and Storage Space with any other account, so performance is high. |
| Customization | The user has limited control and flexibility over hosting parameters as Cloud Hosting is generally distributed among several different servers. | VPS Hosting gives you full root access to the virtual server you have been allocated to so that you can take up higher levels of customization. |
| Scalability | The primary advantage that Cloud Hosting possesses is Scalability. Addition and removal of hosting resources like CPU, RAM and Storage Space are extremely easy. | You can scale resources in VPS Hosting as well, but not as instantly as Cloud Hosting. You will be required to put in a request for addition of resources which will need to be arranged for accordingly. |
| Security | As the hosting resources are divided and distributed across various servers, additional security measures need to be taken to ensure top-notch security over the cloud. | VPS Hosting is more secure than Cloud as all data is housed on a single server and you have root access to set up any necessary security software or application. |
| Cost | The resources are distributed and shared across the Cloud with other websites hosted on the cloud. This turns out to be less costly as the cost for server resources are divided. Alternatively, certain Cloud Hosting providers follow the “Pay as you use” model where you only pay for the resources you use. | VPS Hosting is pretty straightforward where you pay a fixed amount every month for the VPS resources allocated to your website. |
Conclusion
We can conclude by saying that VPS hosting would work best if you are sure of the resources you will need to handle the traffic load on your website and your budget allows you to secure VPS Hosting. On the other hand, if you are on a tight budget and your website tends to receive variable traffic load, then the flexibility that Cloud Hosting has to offer would work best.
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