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VPS versus Cloud Hosting – Part 2
By: Aaron Parker |
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| What reasons would you have for choosing between virtual private servers (VPS) and cloud hosting? |
What reasons would you have for choosing between virtual private servers (VPS) and cloud hosting?
This is a question that every entrant into the World Wide Web has to contend with. The inherent needs of your website will determine the kind of hosting that you will prefer to go for. Here are a few factors to consider as you contemplate what your best choice would be:
Scalability
With cloud servers, you are able to scale instantly and without prior warning, because your data is centralized and not stored on the node itself. This allows for easy migration to a node that suits your new requirements with no downtime. Moving your RAM requirements up to 128 GB can be done should your application require it. This allows for maximum resource use and quick allocation of these resources to fit any vertical or horizontal growth.
With a virtual server on the other hand, scalability is limited by the resource amount used up on the node. If you want to scale from 8 GB RAM to 36 GB RAM, server limitations may make this impossible to do. Data is stored locally so moving to a new node with more resources available will cause you downtime for several hours. These servers do not do well both in vertical and horizontal growth.
Pricing
It is cheaper to go cloud than remain virtual. Virtual servers are priced at just about the same as cloud servers if not MORE! So why should you buy a virtual server when you can save money AND increase reliability performance and scalability with a cloud server?
Availability
With cloud servers you do not have to worry about downtime. You are guaranteed 100% uptime. If one node goes down you just have to bring it back online on any other node, within the cloud, that has available space. These servers have the ability to come online right away on another node if brought down by system failure. This is not the case with virtual servers. If the node goes down, so do you until the hardware is restored. If the RAID goes down, you risk complete data loss and plenty of downtime.
Performance
When you are using a lot of bandwidth, you can easily be moved to another node with plenty of resources for you to maximize, if you are on cloud servers. Limitless resources and quick problem resolution enable you to maximize your [performance. In virtual servers, you are randomly placed on the shared computer with the hope that nobody else will max the use of resources and bring the system down for all other hosted alongside them. |
Author resource:
Tracy is a journalist and an experienced content writer. She has more than six years experience in copy writing and journalism. Presently she is researching and writing on various subjects, but of particular interest are virtual private servers VPS |
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