Difference between Cloud hosting and Dedicated Hosting

In current age of technology when the businesses are changing their business and marketing strategy, they are utilizing the technology to take their business ahead. Now if we will see websites are becoming one of the important part of every organization or business. But to make the website accessible to public web hosting is more important but choosing the right web host is now most important. But during choosing any web host it needs to understand web hosting and its different types properly along with knowledge on cloud servers and dedicated servers, their use and applications and in which case which one is good and should be preferred. So now let’s understand two different types of hosting i.e Cloud hosting and Dedicated hosting.

1. Cloud hosting :
Cloud hosting is one of the premium plan in the market for web hosting. Here the website is hosted on a set or a cluster of servers, many servers and machines are working synchronously as a single entity. Cloud hosting allows to create computing resources using cloud computing facilities. It offers good scalability and flexible in nature so that it easy to increase or decrease resources as per requirement. It is good for websites having high traffic. Its speed and flexibility makes its preferred choice for web hosting.

Pros of Cloud Hosting :

• On demand resource – pay on time.
• High availability – reliable.
• Better scalability – flexible.
• Recovering lost data.

Cons of Cloud Hosting :

• Advanced cloud knowledge is required.
• Platform dependency – cloud vendor collaboration
• Limited Control to users in use of services

2. Dedicated hosting :
In dedicated hosting a full server belongs to you means the website is stored on that single server which is dedicated only to that server. It is different than the shared hosting where in one server multiple websites are hosted. But here one physical server is dedicated to one site. The organization has the full rights on the resources of the server and it can be configured accordingly as per exact specification. So it gives higher performance higher level of security but it is more expensive as compared to other types of hosting.

Pros of Dedicated Hosting :

• Higher performance
• High level security
• Complete customization
• Best support when required

Cons of Dedicated Hosting :

• It is expensive than other hosting
• Requires skilled person for customization

Difference between Cloud hosting and Dedicated Hosting :

S.No.	CLOUD HOSTING	DEDICATED HOSTING
01.	In cloud hosting the website is hosted on a set or a cluster of servers, many servers and machines are working synchronously as a single entity.	In dedicated hosting a full server belongs to you means the website is stored on that single server which is dedicated only to that server.
02.	Here cluster of servers provide service to the website.	Here a single server provides service to the website.
03.	Cloud hosting gives good performance.	Dedicated hosting very good performance.
04.	Cloud hosting is more scalable than dedicated hosting.	Dedicated hosting is not so scalable like cloud hosting.
05.	Cloud hosting is less reliable than dedicated hosting.	Dedicated hosting is more reliable than cloud hosting.
06.	In cloud hosting there is not a guaranteed uptime 24*7.	In dedicated hosting there is a guaranteed uptime 24*7.
07.	Migration of cloud server on physical server is possible without any down time through hot swapping.	Here migration to other physical server either booting is essential where might be down time.
08.	Cloud hosting charges as pay as you go model means pay as per your use.	Dedicated hosting does not charge as pay as you go model, it charges based on its fixed monthly plan, even when 100% of its resources are not used.
09.	In cloud hosting securing a server is the vendors responsibility.	In dedicated hosting securing a dedicated server will be the clients responsibility.
10.	Examples – Cloudways, A2 Hosting, Kamatera, Siteground, Hostinger etc.	Examples – LiquidWeb, InMotionHosting, HostGator, DreamHost, Bluehost etc.