Every online business needs reliable server hosting to survive online. Hence, most of online businesses especially E-commerce stores and Online games companies spend plenty of time for research in choosing the right server.
Cloud Hosting and Dedicated hosting are 2 of the most popular and highly recommended hosting types available. To know which one is better, it is important to understand your requirements first. However, I will try and give you a quick overview of how they work and what are their pros and cons. Followed by this, we will try and deduce in which scenario you should use a dedicated server or a web hosting cloud.
Dedicated Hosting is where you get a whole server and all its resultant resources such as CPU bandwidth, RAM, and storage space all for your website or application. It allows for a high level of performance, security, and flexibility since you are in charge of everything for the server. But, all this is coming at a price, literally. Dedicated Hosting is very expensive. Also, if you are going for Dedicated hosting, you need to be sure that your website and application need that kind of resources. Or else you would end up paying for all those resources and not end up using them. That would be a waste of money.
Cloud hosting, on the other hand, is like an infinite pool of Server resources that you can keep using as much as you require. You can start with a share of the pooled server resources on the Cloud, and if you find yourself in the need of more, you can just scale up as much as you want. Here you can actually only pay for the resources that you use and that way be in complete control of your hosting bills and avoid any kind of resource wastage. Cloud Hosting services are the most cost-effective hosting services available today. The biggest advantage of Cloud Hosting is its scalability which makes it really ideal for start-ups and eCommerce portals that need periodic scale-up and scale-down for hosting resources depending upon the growth and season.