Cloud Hosting vs Shared Hosting

I talk about cloud sometime back which you can read from here Hybrid Cloud

I did mention the services of the hybrid cloud, benefits, advantages, and disadvantages. Today will move into hosting, specifically web hosting. For any developer to have a site live on the internet, you need web hosting. The question here is picking the right host for your web project. In this post, I will be trying to bring out some differences between cloud and shared hosting.

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Web hosting, you need to consider a lot of options which can get you confused, we will try to see how to make it clear for any beginner in web development. Cloud hosting and shared hosting are the two most common hosting choices you can find, Note they are not the best choice as the host you choose will depend on your needs for your website.

What is shared hosting?

Shared web hosting is the most popular, affordable, and widely used hosting solution available on the internet.

Shared host as the name implies a single server is divided up between multiple users with each user having an allocated amount of bandwidth. Each user can put an unlimited number of sites on their account depending on the quantity of space required. This makes it possible for a server with multiple accounts to host over a thousand sites.

Characteristics

• Low Maintenance
• Super affordable
• Easy to upgrade

Given that we have thousands of sites on the same server, a site might perform poorly due to another site on the server taking up too many resources which have been shared in use.

Shared hosting is good for people who want to keep their size small and have a low budget, while cloud hosting is for large sites and requires a huge budget too.

What is Cloud hosting

Cloud hosting or VPS hosting permit its users to be able to use resources of multiple servers, and not stick their site to a single server location.

As I mentioned above, hosting permits unlimited expansion and can contain heavy traffic sites. With cloud hosting, sites can be overwhelmed since they can switch cloud servers during such moments.

Characteristics

• High Maintenance
• Required huge budget
• Not easy to upgrade (required high technologies)

Which to choose

Cloud hosting is a better option than shared hosting because of its ability to handle huge traffics, its reliability, and has a high level of secure servers.

When it comes down to the cost, cloud hosting options are expensive when compared to shared hosting. So if you want a hosting package with high performance, then cloud hosting is the best option. If you are just starting, with a small budget, then shared hosting may be the right option until you have the budget to upgrade.

As a developer, what hosting plan do you have? Comment and tell me