Choosing a cloud hosting or traditional VPS?

Mihai B. · Apr 19, 2016

I'm looking into alternatives for our current hosting. I have a shared and a VPS used from since 2015 that I'm looking to move sites to a new VPS that combine all into a place.

To be honest I'm hopelessly confused about the difference between a cloud hosting and a VPS. I have seen offers on the forum and I can get cloud plans, so how does this differ from a traditional VPS?

Is it worth trying a cloud hosting? Or should I stick with a traditional hosted VPS?

I need your recommendations. Thanks in advance.

RDO Servers · Apr 19, 2016

Cloud hosting means that your services run on multiple physical servers, or at least are capable of running on multiple physical servers.
This is useful when you need to scale out, or is one of the physical servers is offline, your services will still be online, but running on different hardware.

The bad new is, too many providers offer "Cloud" hosting which is no different then traditional hosting. You need to make sure you check for reviews and ask questions!

Silent-Bob · Apr 19, 2016

RDO Servers said:
Cloud hosting means that your services run on multiple physical servers, or at least are capable of running on multiple physical servers.
This is useful when you need to scale out, or is one of the physical servers is offline, your services will still be online, but running on different hardware.

This obviously has more pros over VPS hosting, I could think it acts like CDN.

RDO Servers said:
The bad new is, too many providers offer "Cloud" hosting which is no different then traditional hosting. You need to make sure you check for reviews and ask questions!

How to know it is not different? I don't get your point on this.

meetdilip · Apr 19, 2016

Cloud hosting is widely misused marketing term. Not every cloud hosting infrastructure is up to mark. You may end up loosing the crispness of your server in case of a badly configured cloud set up. I would any time go with some reputed providers. But personally I don't think you will need a cloud hosting unless the demands from your website is dynamic.

ZenHosting · Apr 27, 2016

Mihai B. said:
Is it worth trying a cloud hosting? Or should I stick with a traditional hosted VPS?

I need your recommendations. Thanks in advance.

The other posts have addressed the difference between shared and cloud hosting so I'll focus on your VPS.

It'd be helpful to know more about your VPS so we can help you make a decision. How many sites are you running on the VPS? I'm assuming it's a managed VPS? Do you plan on continuing to add customers to the VPS?

With a VPS, you have more control over the environment.

KevinHV · Sep 22, 2016

While placing order for VPS make sure to ask them that its managed or unmanaged VPS. If server is unmanaged then you need to take care of all technical issues. Hosting provider will help you just to reboot or reinstall VPS.

amberhuntus · Sep 22, 2016

In a VPS hosting, one dedicated server is divided into multiple servers. All these divisions are virtualized further and each of them work as a dedicated server, hence called Virtual dedicated server or VDS or VPS where as in cloud hosting uses the resources of several clustered servers and these servers together offer resources to accomodate hosting of a website.In Vps if a part of machine is failed or whole your website will not work properly but this is not the case in cloud hosting becuase if there is any failure your system will re-routed to some other server causing minimum downtime.

If You will choose private cloud services will be more expensive then vps But as compared to the VPS, Pubic Cloud hosting has the edge and that is why it is getting popular everyday .You should be careful cloud hosting service provider but there are a lot of companies in the market and many of them are not providing that level of services that they claim to be.

LJSHost · Sep 22, 2016

To be honest I'm hopelessly confused about the difference between a cloud hosting and a VPS. I have seen offers on the forum and I can get cloud plans, so how does this differ from a traditional VPS?

The term 'Cloud' gets thrown around way to much as a marketing term, but technically it comes down to two things.

1. A traditional VPS is a virtual server on a dedicated server that it divided up into virtual containers. This type of setup has no failover if the underlying operating system or hardware fails every VPS on that physical server is offline.

2. Hyper Visor powered VPS is far superior and what I would consider true cloud hosting. To explain in simple terms you have the failover protection of many servers and storage if a piece of hardware fails it has no effect on your VPS. Shared hosting advertised as 'Cloud' will be a Virtual Server built on this technology. However many lies are often told in marketing and the only way to be sure what ' Cloud ' hosting you are buying is to ask the provider what technology they are using.

EcommIndiaCloudIT · Jan 6, 2017

Mihai B. said:
Is it worth trying a cloud hosting? Or should I stick with a traditional hosted VPS? I need your recommendations. Thanks in advance.

This subject has been discussed so many times before on this forum.

Cloud Hosting = Shared Hosting. Period. The server resources are shared regardless of whether the backend systems are distributed or not. The problem some people have understanding this is that they have for ages thought that Shared Hosting runs on a single server. No it doesn't. Good Shared hosting platforms are distributed. The word "shared" implies the underlying resources are shared and nothing is dedicated for your use. This is the same case in cloud hosting.

Please refer to this post for a little more detail: https://forumweb.hosting/14378-diff...ing-and-shared-hosting.html?p=86972#post86972

As for the answer to the original question, please go ahead and move your sites to the VPS. Since you already own a VPS and manage it, it would be better to consolidate all your resources under it or even get a bigger VPS or multiple. With VPS you actually have resources that are dedicated for your use. This is the primary differentiating criteria between cloud/shared & VPS.

With regards to the question of Nginx v/s Apache. If you have multiple sites, use Apache. If you have just one site, use Nginx because it does not have the full functionality of .htaccess neither is setting up virtual hosts that straight forward and simple. However, various benchmarks and real world use cases have time and again proven that nginx is faster that apache is most cases.

Maxoq · Jan 8, 2017

RDO Servers said:
Nginx is a wonderful reverse proxy. It has been proven over and over (Using benchmark testing) to deliver static content faster then Apache alone.

The vast majority of websites have a large amount of static content (css, js, images)

Ergo, Nginx would benefit the majority of websites.

I see an disadvantage of Nginx is we have to add configurations into config file to make some work...e.g..have to create a rules to can make rewrite URL rule work while with Apache, that's now the default setting for every user.

Nginx can be considered better on the aspect of performance .

EcommIndiaCloudIT said:
Cloud Hosting = Shared Hosting

I've never seen someone said Cloud Hosting = Shared Hosting. How it can be equal shared hosting while shared hosting in limited in many features, i.e number of processes, access server resource or flexible..etc.

RDO Servers · Jan 10, 2017

This has gotten way off topic, and the OP has not returned to this thread in 9 months.

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