Can I know if a server is dedicated or cloud server hosting?

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I got an offer dedicated server 8 CPUs, 32GB of RAM from a web host provider. How can I know if is is dedicated or cloud server hosting? Normally I bought a dedicated server, not a cloud server.
 

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Is your new provider saying it's a dedicated server, or a cloud dedicated server? I'm always skeptical when I see or hear about the cloud. The word "cloud" to any hosting product within the web hosting industry, has hundred of different definitions. Given the ambiguity of "cloud hosting" especially since there isn't really an agreed upon definition of what "cloud" is, I'm going to make the assumption that you are referring to a "cloud server", whereas you get resources similar to a dedicated server, but within the cloud infrastructure allowing you to leverage SANs, fail over, etc.If that is the case, then.. a cloud server will appear and act just like a normal dedicated server, allowing you to install cPanel, run crons, etc. If you are referring to some other cloud hosting type, you'll need to provide more information before anyone here will be able to offer you any guidance.

Under ideal circumstances a server in cloud hosting is going to instantly stay in sync with it's other cloud instances in other datacenters. Meaning that if one instances or resource goes down, there are others to back it up. The more instances you have, the more protected you are from outages but it's also the more expensive things become. I'm not sure on the price you were offered of the specs you had mentioned, just know that from vendor to vendor the word "cloud" will mean different things. Primarily for marketing purposes. The truth is that most hosting solutions are cloud, and if you study the history of clouding computing starting with AWS (which really took ownership of that space as an attempt for Amazon to be recognized as a technology company and not simply as another retailer,) their solution was simply a coshare/colocation offering. Rackspace is one of the few companies that has pioneer the evolution of cloud with their openstack solution. Most clients do not see the difference between them as long as they work the same way for their end user needs. Much the same as a virtual or hybrid server compared to a bare metal, etc.. For 99% of the end users, they are buying on cost and function. The rest of that is semantics that only network admins care about.

Think your public email account. Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook or even your domain names email account. They all can be considered as "cloud" emails. Access from anywhere, reliable, auto-scaling. Heck, you can be looking for

The original use of the term 'cloud' was highly available, highly redundant infrastructure. Most of the time if a company is decently well known, it isn't considered as "false advertising" , and there are true cloud providers out there, but they tend to be more expensive. You won't find many budget "true cloud" providers but these days "cloud" has just been diluted, as many new providers are using it interchangeably with all their products.
 

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If you have access to the system (with Linux OS installed), you can run the
Code:
dmidecode | grep Product
If dmidecode is not installed:
Code:
sudo apt-get install dmidecode
or
Code:
yum install dmidecode
For physical hardware, it will return details regarding the server hardware. On virtual (cloud) hardware, it will return details regarding the hypervisor.
 

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Apparently, hostnamectl also tells you if it is virtual machine or dedicated server.
Also, command lshw should help.
 

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Since you are just offered the server and may not have committed to it yet, the best way is to ask the hosting provider directly and they will most likely give you an honest answer.
 

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you can see virtualisation type from below command which will show if there is any virtualisation done or dedicated hardware is there on server

hostnamectl

Static hostname: ns522250

Icon name: computer-server

Chassis: server

Machine ID: bb536756c93ebb7134e5aeb05daeda2c

Boot ID: 01f8bc47f0394090897612e48a41750e

Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-66-generic

Architecture: x86-64

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[root@server backup]# hostnamectl

Static hostname: server.valid-code.com

Icon name: computer-vm

Chassis: vm

Machine ID: 82cdb5d517984f9f84d445289fabc036

Boot ID: 57ee5d5d97494bb6ae28718f867b9030

Virtualization: kvm

Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64

Architecture: x86-64
 

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A real cloud is more expensive than a dedicated server for the same resources usually so if it was a cloud they would have tell you in the first place I guess.
 

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Cloud hosting plans offer scalable server resource allocation based on hardware virtualization, however dedicated server plans contain a fixed allocation of isolated RAM, CPU, and SSD/HDD storage that can provide better performance and improved security for online business applications.

Cloud servers can be organized to offer levels of performance, safety and control similar to those of a dedicated server. But as an alternative of being hosted on physical hardware that's exclusively used by you, they reside in a shared “virtualized” environment that's managed by your cloud hosting provider.
 

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In the dedicated server, the owner has full control over the server and it can manage the server according to its need. Though for the maintenance and management of the dedicated server we need the complete knowledge of the server itself, here we have the full control of the server. The cloud server is managed; the server provides the customer does not have any control over the Server. Managing a cloud server is way harder than managing a Dedicated server, unlike the single dedicated server, in the cloud server, we deal with hundreds of virtual servers.

The main reason for using the dedicated server is security, to attack a dedicated server could be a tough call for a hacker because it’s very hard to breach the security of this server. Cloud server also provides security, but a head to head comparison with the dedicated server, its loss. It does not mean that anyone can attack the cloud server, cloud servers are highly secure too but not that much as dedicated.

We cannot change the configuration in a dedicated server because we have dedicated hardware in use. Cloud servers are highly scalable, according to your need, you can change anything such as resources and space.

Both cloud and dedicated servers have their features. If your business is small or medium, you should choose a cloud server to host your website or web-app. Cloud provides you with high scalability, flexibility, and security.
 

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It's difficult to check whether a website is hosted on a cloud network or on a dedicated server. You can find the server IP and trace the IP to reveal the IP Agent Name. Analyze their service and you can come to a conclusion.

Cloud servers can be configured to provide levels of performance, security and control similar to those of a dedicated server. But instead of being hosted on physical hardware that's solely used by you, they reside in a shared “virtualized” environment that's managed by your cloud hosting provider.
 
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