Compare web hosting vs. cloud hosting for your website

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• "Managed hosting services offer a real opportunity for small-to-medium sized organizations that lack the capital to keep and maintain their servers on-site, don’t have an appropriate IT team in place, or are time-constrained due to the demands of their business operations."
• "Colocation cuts costs compared to on-premise deployments through: Simply put: a colocation data center offers organizations steep discounts on the intrinsic physical costs of keeping servers on-site."
• "Compared to a managed or dedicated hosting provider, colocation also offers cost-saving benefits: Data centers like GigeNET’s nationwide locations offer deep discounts on power consumption, superior bandwidth availability and security against emergencies like fires, theft and damage."
• "Ultimately, both colocation and managed services offer tangible time and money savings compared to keeping your server on-site."
• "The choice comes down to evaluating whether your organization can meet the technical demands of colocation hosting, or if it needs the expertise that managed hosting offers."
• "At GigeNET, we’re focused on providing our partners with the resources and expertise they need so they can focus on what really matters: achieving their organization’s goals instead of babysitting their server and worrying about their infrastructure."

Transcript: I'm Emily and today I'm going to answer a question from Sasha the co-founder of a b2b marketplace his question is what's the difference between a server and a cloud Austin and before answering this question let's add a bit of context Sasha and his co-founder already developed the first version of a product they are now undertaking the version 2 of their development and they are considering moving to Amazon Web Services as a cloud hosting solution moving an application to the cloud is usually a very good option because we are not rendering a server anymore but we are buying a delivered service instead and let's make a quick explanation when we use a classical server basically you are in a data center let's this is a data center then you will rent one server here and in this server this one B will belongs to you you will put some data base some files for your application as well as your application let's say that we put everything in a zip file up that's it five that's everything that will be on your server the point is if something's goes wrong like if for some reason this... See more →

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• "On the other hand, Cloud hosting provides dedicated resources (processing power, memory, storage space) from a pool of servers."
• "You will learn how to use RunCloud to manage your cloud server just as easily as managing shared hosting."
• "If someone on the same server happens to use a lot of resources (running a high traffic website) and often has traffic spikes, this will affect your site performance and thus your site speed will be drastically reduced."
• "It is usually container based, your web application has a virtual space and dedicated resources (processing power, memory, storage space, bandwidth) in the cloud."
• "The cloud hosting companies house, run, and maintain all the hardware and customers pays for the resources they use, similar to how you pay for utilities like electricity."
• "Here are some criteria that may suggest when cloud hosting is better for your business: DigitalOcean (DO) is a reliable, easy-to-use cloud computing platform of virtual servers, object storage, and more."

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• "If you’ve spent any amount of time on a web host’s website, you’ve probably seen terms like shared , VPS , dedicated , cloud, WordPress, and reseller."
• "Larger businesses that expect big traffic to their sites should pick VPS or dedicated hosting, each of which offers increasingly powerful server specs."
• "That’s an entirely different beast that lets you easily scale website power across multiple servers, though not every web host offers it."
• "Think of it like this: a web host may have a maximum 5GB bandwidth, but depending on your hosting plan, your site may only allow 1GB of data transfers per month."
• "For example, DreamHost states on its website that the company doesn’t track “bandwidth or traffic, so you never have to worry about perky overage fees.” If you’re looking to sign up for shared web hosting, you’ll likely receive real estate on traditional hard disk Drive (HDD) server."
• "As you move up the hosting ladder to more powerful offerings, such as VPS and dedicated, web hosts will give you the option to build a site on a solid-state drive (SSD)."

Transcript: Should you use cloud-based hosting versus traditional hosting and let's talk about dedicated servers while we are at it so I been developing since the 90s and the host thing that I'm used to is either traditional where you read hosts hosting space from some some provider some hosting company they put it on their physical servers and away you go you use a control panel like Plesk or cPanel to interact with your site you upload your site by SS FTP yeah this is traditional then we go to the next step where you get pretty popular where your sites are starting to generate a lot of traffic and you start getting in trouble with your hosting accounts that happen to me many many years ago so you have to upgrade to a dedicated server so you get your own dedicated box now you could configure your own box and stick it in some company's warehouse where they plug it into their super high-speed Internet I wouldn't advise that because then there's any problems with that box it's a big heading for you you have to go in and blah blah blah blah better solution with a dedicated service... See more →

Transcript: >> If you've read any technology article inrecent times I'm sure you've come accross the concept of cloud. Cloud hosting, cloud accounting, cloud software,cloud computing. How is cloud hosting different from traditionalhosting? I'm sure most people are familiar with regularhosting where you provide your website to a hosting company and they host that websitefor you so its available online to your customers. How is cloud hosting different? Well with traditional hosting your websiteis hosted on a single server on the internet, that means your website and lots of otherpeoples websites are all sitting on one physical computer on the internet. Why is that good? Well it means the cost of the service providedto you is reduced because lots of people are sharing that computing resource. Why is it bad? Well its bad because if 1 other person onthat server happens to have a wildly popular website the performance of the overall servercan degrade affecting your website as well. So how does cloud hosting improve on thissituation or resolve the situation. Well with cloud hosting your website is hostedon a single server along with a whole lot of other peoples websites. Your website and all other customers of thatparticular cloud hosting... See more →