Cloud
hosting is a web hosting service which uses IaaS or PaaS services, not
dedicated server services to host your web applications and services.
cloud hosting different from shared hosting?
Shared
hosting involves deploying your web application to multiple dedicated servers,
each of which must be operating at its maximum efficiency to maximize your
usage of the server. You pay for a share of the server resources – you share
your own resources with your customers.
A key
difference between shared hosting and cloud hosting is that you pay for the
resources you consume, such as CPU, RAM, and storage space. This means that a
user is a customer, but you’re a Hosting Company and don’t have to make the
customer pay for your resources (unless, of course, you’re doing something
untoward like traffic to child porn sites). Also, while you pay for the
resources you use, the customer is paying for the resources they consume.
How is
cloud hosting different from dedicated hosting?
Dedicated
hosting services involve getting a server in your customer’s name and services
are dedicated to that user. If you want to create a website, you need to make a
purchase (afford to pay for it) and agree to pay for its use. With the dedicated
server, you cannot use it for other purposes – it is to you a one-time
purchase, with limited usage. If you try to access your server while you are on
a different site, you will either be kicked out or charged a huge server fee to
allow you to access your server.
dedicated servers, you’re just paying for the resources you use. This is a
one-time purchase of hardware. If your hardware breaks, you buy a new one. You
have limited resources to use to maximize the efficiency of your server.
How is
cloud hosting different from VPS hosting ?
VPS hosting
comes under the category of shared hosting. There are two differences.
Firstly, you
don’t own or rent a server. Instead, you purchase a monthly access on a server
that someone else will own and you’ll be assigned specific access to. You own a
patch of the server, and can decide how much of the server you wish to utilize.
You’re in control of it, but in exchange you pay a fixed fee.
Secondly,
VPS hosting is completely customizable. The VPS provider will give you full
access to their servers, allowing you to install and configure your servers
exactly how you see fit. So if you run a single site, you can create a shared
or VPS, assign a unique domain name to it and configure everything to run in
the way you see fit.
How is
cloud hosting different from colocation hosting ?
Colocation
is an industry that’s relatively new in the hosting space. If you are running
an e-commerce website and require cloud servers, then you will most likely want
to colocate – that is, make your site housed within the same data center as
other customers who use colocation.
What are
the biggest differences between cloud hosting and dedicated hosting ?
If you’re
reading this article, you likely already know what your requirements are and
you’ve chosen a hosting solution that meets them, regardless of how expensive
it was to do so. If you’re just starting out, you should have a conversation
with a web host about your requirements and the type of dedicated server you’d
like to use.
It’s
important to note that hosting companies will give you different types of
dedicated servers for different needs. A basic dedicated server provides you
with everything you need to run a website. However, if you want extra
resources, such as additional servers, or more storage space, then you will
want to consider dedicated hosting options.
An analogy
that I often use is the car industry. If you’re not looking for a car, you can
buy a basic Volkswagen Golf. If you want a sports car, you can buy a
Lamborghini. Likewise, if you want a quick web host, you can choose between one
of the average priced shared hosting plans or an A VPS hosting plan. However,
if you want a super fast dedicated server that can handle your e-commerce
website, you’ll need to purchase a dedicated server from a company that
specializes in dedicated hosting and will be able to provide you with a server
that’s optimized for your website.
How does
a shared hosting server compare to cloud hosting ?
The
difference between a shared hosting server and a cloud hosting server is how
the server is running. As I’ve mentioned above, cloud hosting is built on a
virtualized environment. In this situation, resources are being allocated on a
need-to-know basis. The hosting provider will allocate resources to the virtual
machines running on the server. So if you need more resources, you will have to
ask your hosting provider for additional resources.
If you have
a simple website, you won’t need more than what’s provided in a shared hosting
plan. Even if you’re looking to grow your website significantly, then you may
consider a dedicated server option, although some hosting providers provide
additional resources to allow this to happen.
Top 3
Cloud Hosting Providers
There are
many cloud hosting providers that offer affordable and reliable cloud hosting
for both businesses and individuals.
You might
wonder why I would even suggest using cloud hosting providers. If you’re
looking for an optimized cloud server, you’ll want to consider an instance of
the cloud hosting provider’s hosting services – which is another way of saying
that you will have to share a server with other customers who also purchased an
instance of the hosting service. Cloud hosting providers also make it possible
to buy, install and manage servers without having to know much about how a
server works.
In fact, if
you have questions about how a server works, you can often ask for help from
the hosting provider’s support staff. However, just remember that you will
probably have to pay for the help.
Amazon AWS
is a leading provider of cloud hosting and also has an amazing array of
features. For example, you can choose to rent a virtual machine for $6 per
month or buy an AWS instance. Instances come with the basic AWS services, such
as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3), but it also has additional services, such as Amazon VPC, Amazon
CloudFront, Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network, Amazon CloudWatch,
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB and
more. You can also pay $10 per month to run one instance of a given service.
If you’re
familiar with Linux, then you can install the major Linux distributions on an
Amazon AWS instance. It is very easy to do this. You can even try the instances
out for free, just by using a very small bandwidth cap. The website above will
help you do this. The great thing about AWS is that you don’t have to worry
about managing the servers yourself. I can’t imagine that you will need to do
that at all.
Netfirms is
another popular provider that offers a shared cloud hosting plan. With
Netfirms, you can have all the features that you would expect from a web
hosting provider, such as customer service and responsive customer service. You
can have an account for your very small website, or for your larger, more
popular websites.
In addition,
you have the option to upgrade from a shared hosting plan to a dedicated plan.
Netfirms also offers cloud hosting packages in the form of dedicated servers,
virtual private servers, VPS, application servers and mobile apps servers. It
even has a premium SaaS plan.
Overall,
Netfirms provides an easy and affordable web hosting experience for both
businesses and individuals.
Hostwinds is
another popular cloud hosting provider, and it provides a lot of features.
These include a free website builder, unlimited bandwidth, fast connections and
storage. It also has a great business plan. However, Hostwinds also has a very
easy-to-use and affordable shared hosting plan for website owners. You get 25GB
of shared space and unlimited bandwidth, both of which are uncommon in the
cloud hosting world. Of course, you don’t have to choose cloud hosting
providers only from Netfirms and Hostwinds. You could even choose VPS hosting
or some other type of cloud hosting provider. As long as you are willing to
share the server with other customers, you can get a cloud hosting plan that is
affordable and reliable.
Shared vs
Dedicated
As we
already mentioned, most cloud hosting services allow you to host a single
website or a few websites on one server. However, if you have a really large
website that you would like to have your own dedicated server on, then that
could be a great option. With dedicated servers, you get your own dedicated
server. This is perfect for businesses, especially large businesses, because
they don’t have to share a server with other websites. You don’t have to worry
about a shared server causing your site to slow down.
Additionally,
dedicated servers are typically more expensive than shared servers, but you
will find that most dedicated servers come with all of the same services as a shared
server. Furthermore, the dedicated server pricing can often be cheaper than the
shared server pricing.
Amazon AWS,
Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine are all popular cloud hosting
platforms, and they provide both shared and dedicated hosting services.
However, their services are fundamentally different, so it’s hard to compare
them directly.
On Amazon,
if you want to host a website on the cloud, you can sign up for Amazon EC2 and
use the same platform that you would use to run your own server. On Amazon, the
pricing is based on the amount of resources that you are going to consume. That
means that you will pay a little bit less to host a single website, and you can
even host a larger website on one of the larger Amazon EC2 instances, which can
cost a lot more per month. On the other hand, if you want to host a website on
Azure, then you will have to pay a bit more for each resource that you use.
However, if you need a lot of resources, it’s possible that you can save money
by choosing Microsoft’s cloud platform. Azure does have a shared hosting plan,
however.
On Google cloud , you can host websites on a lot of different Cloud Platforms. However,
they provide both private and public cloud hosting. However, Google’s prices
are considerably higher than what you might pay for the services on Azure,
Amazon AWS, or even Microsoft Azure. On the other hand, you can always create
your own virtual private cloud and have a separate server
