How does Cloud Hosting differentiate from Shared Hosting?

Many of us have hard about Cloud and Shared Hosting and most of us are confused with both the terms considering it to be the same. But it is not actually so, there is much difference between Cloud Hosting and Shared Hosting.

Wondering what is Cloud Hosting? The answer is right below

Cloud is something that differentiates Cloud Hosting. Cloud Hosting is all about a theory which is said to be infinitely scalable as it given an access to an infinite number of machines so as to enable all those machines to perform as one system.

Various Multiple physical servers are combined with each other so as to develop a website or application as a single machine. There are various benefits of cloud hosting some of which are similar to that of Cloud Computing like improvisation in the reliability, better performance, on-demand scalability, redundancy etc. 

These features are apt for all those websites which are developed with the purpose of attracting new customers easily with the help of new product launch or success of some viral video. This is possible only for cloud hosting. On contrary to this, in regular hosting, there are high chances of website break. 

This will never happen with cloud hosting as it has got the capacity of gathering the website’s resources which are automatically scaled up so as to meet all the demands. If your website is hosted on various servers and not only on the one, then the failure of one server will never affect the working of another server. One server supports the other one, if somehow servers fail to do so, then additional servers are utilized.

Now let's talk about Shared Hosting

Shared Hosting as the name states is all about web hosting solution. It undergoes a process where some amount of physical server hardware is given to each customer so as to help them run and operate their website or application.

Shared Hosting does not cost so much as it involves various customers on a single web server which leads to lower costs. Shared hosting manages to complete a project online at low cost, but on the other end, it has got various disadvantages too. As several customers are sharing one set of physical hardware, there are chances when users do not get the required amount of server performance. 

This can become a major issue especially for those sites & applications which are `putting down fewer requirements and are also facing a low number of visitors on their site. Shared hosting is not found to be suitable for Intensive Application. The major reason being is the bifurcation of the full power of the hardware in various directions at one point in time.

To make up your mind, you should understand certain aspects precisely. Organisations wherein much priority is being laid upon the reliability and scalability of their websites, Cloud Hosting is considered to be the appropriate one. On the other hand, for the website where the traffic on the site is not much and cannot even be predicted also there is not much focus on selling products online, then Shared Hosting will turn out to be beneficial and effective.

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