BudgetVM-Winnie
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Is dedicated hosting cheaper in the long run compared to cloud hosting? Which one should I opt for when hosting high traffic sites?
Dedicated hosting vs Cloud hosting
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ITivan80
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Cloud hosting is where the company runs your website or service on a server with other web sites or services. You generally get no control over the server itself; you get to upload files and administer the service, but the hardware and OS is the host's responsibility. Dedicated Server hosting is where the host rents you a complete server in their data center. They provide the hardware and OS, internet connection and bandwidth. You are responsible for whatever else you choose to install and run.
BudgetVM-Winnie
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Thanks. Suppose I have the right technical expertise in configuring everything from the ground up, which is the cheaper of the two? Would you vouch for Cloud or dedicated hosting?
S4 Hosting
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The problem is that most of the terms used by different hosting companies are not very exact in meaning. They all have a definition you can look up, but whether the individual company is strictly following those definitions or making their own interpretation is a different thing. Nowhere is this more true than with the terms 'cloud' or 'shared', they can mean vastly different things depending on who is applying them.
The best thing to do is to not start out with a decision that you need a specific kind of hosting, but to identify what your actual needs are.
Talk to potential hosts with that list of what you want to build, what the expected traffic is, and see what they propose. There truly is no one size (or type) fits all solution.
The best thing to do is to not start out with a decision that you need a specific kind of hosting, but to identify what your actual needs are.
- How much traffic are you expecting?
- What are you going to be running, resource intensive apps, or just serving static pages?
- Do you need a specific OS?
- Do you need high availability and failover?
- Do you want to split your resources over multiple separate server instances, i.e. a separate database server?
- and etc. and etc.
Talk to potential hosts with that list of what you want to build, what the expected traffic is, and see what they propose. There truly is no one size (or type) fits all solution.
HostColor
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"Dedicated Hosting" coulee either a "physical dedicated server" or a "cloud dedicated server". the difference between these two is the use of virtualization technology. If the data and apps are hosted on an OS installed on a bare-metal server, then it is considered a "Dedicated Server". If they are hosted on a virtualized server, that resides on top of a Cloud computing system, then it is a "dedicated cloud server". There are also virtual servers (VPS or VMs) that reside on a stand-alone physical server. These cannot be defined as a "Cloud".
scottweb
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If you have high traffic on you site and you have right technical person who can deal with all the configuration stuff then you should go for dedicated server. If you need high resources, dedicated server will be cheaper then cloud servers. In case, you don't want to do all the technical stuff and want one-click deployment, then you should go for cloud servers. Cloud server provider can help you to deploy your application on their cloud and can handle some level of the security stuff too.
Aayushi
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Dedicated Hosting:
You can use Dedicated Hosting if your website has high traffic and sensitive data. It is exclusive and does not share with anyone, and It provides an in-house functionality, but the providers own, manage, and operate it. It gives you hardware, operating system, and control panel choices. It allows clients the flexibility of customers, the server to the client for unique needs of CPU, RAM, RAID, Hard Disk, OS choice, CPanel choice, etc.
Cloud Hosting:
Cloud hosting easily manages high traffic, and it is flexible and scalable. It allows you to raise or reduce your resources per your business growth and pay accordingly. Cloud hosting is your best choice if you are looking for reliable hosting services.
Dedicated hosting is not cheaper than cloud hosting, but Dedicated hosting provides more resources and services than cloud hosting, so Dedicated Hosting is suitable for your High traffic website.
You can use Dedicated Hosting if your website has high traffic and sensitive data. It is exclusive and does not share with anyone, and It provides an in-house functionality, but the providers own, manage, and operate it. It gives you hardware, operating system, and control panel choices. It allows clients the flexibility of customers, the server to the client for unique needs of CPU, RAM, RAID, Hard Disk, OS choice, CPanel choice, etc.
Cloud Hosting:
Cloud hosting easily manages high traffic, and it is flexible and scalable. It allows you to raise or reduce your resources per your business growth and pay accordingly. Cloud hosting is your best choice if you are looking for reliable hosting services.
Dedicated hosting is not cheaper than cloud hosting, but Dedicated hosting provides more resources and services than cloud hosting, so Dedicated Hosting is suitable for your High traffic website.
