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For business-critical applications and website there’re a number of hosting options available in the market. How much visitor traffic is expected to visit your website and what applications you will run – helps in confabulating, which hosting platform will deem fit for your business operations. However, a mystifying situation is witnessed by those who are not very sure, which hosting platform they should prefer – a VPS hosting platform or an evolving Cloud.
Well, both VPS hosting and Cloud works on virtualization technology, but they are not exactly the same. A brief understanding of the features and characteristics of the two hosting solutions will help you in deciding a befitting environment for your databases, applications, and web portals.
Scalability and Downtime: In VPS, all the resources are segregated on a single physical server using virtual machine for each client. As the server is separated using virtualization technique, the resources, such as storage space, and RAM can be only expanded to a given limit. If better hardware is required moving hosting between physical servers is easy, however the process consumes some time and can cause downtime.
On the other hand, Cloud hosting is not dependent on one hardware or server as cluster of servers are clubbed together to achieve business objectives. Hundreds of servers are available even just for a single website. Moreover, if any of the servers encounter technical glitches or gets failed, all your workload is shifted to other servers in a cluster, therefore, ensuring your websites are up and running round the clock.
Security and Access: With VPS hosting, root level access is provided to your virtual private server. Server can be optimized and required applications can be configured at your discretion, to manage the web traffic efficiently. Since you are provided with full root access, you can maintain and manage the server the way you want. Custom tools and root level access to the server makes it a secured platform for mission-critical data and applications.
In cloud hosting environment there’s no central location for all your data and applications. The data is replicated across several servers in the cloud cluster. The cloud service provider owes the full responsibility for server maintenance, management and patching.
Pricing: VPS hosting practices a very rigid pricing approach. The VPS service provider will charge you for the allocated resources and bandwidth, no matter if you do not utilize them completely.
Cloud hosting follows a very flexible pricing structure, where a user needs to pay only for the resources utilized.
Opting a reliable hosting platform will definitely help you to achieve your set goals, increased return on investments and wide-spread customer base.
Taiba Fatima is a Delhi, India based content writer with a knack for technical writing. Her alacrity to explore new horizons and learn technological advancements add piquancy to her writing profession. Apart from technology, she is a passionate blogger and loves to write about other verticals including: BPO sector, Travel, Art & Culture.
