Are you in need of a hosting solution? Do you know what exactly do you need? There are 2 options available to you including cloud and dedicated hosting. However, you must be wondering about the differences between these 2 hosting solutions. This article from www.intergrid.com.au is focused on helping you understand the difference between these 2 hosting solutions and how to make the right choice.
Simply put, a dedicated server is like your own server in our data-center. This server is available only to you which means you are the only one using its resources and there is no need for you to worry about its performance. On the other hand, cloud servers are a virtual machine which is running in a hypervisor environment which is managed by Fasthosts. Both the hosting solutions have their own unique advantages and there is no such thing as the best solution. The only thing you need to figure out is the right solution for your unique needs.
Here are a few examples to help you understand the differences.
Say you want to buy milk and you go out to the supermarket but there is a minimum charge of £3 for the parking for 3 hours. However, you pay the parking charges begrudgingly as you are desperate for milk. You get unlimited minutes to talk with your phone bill but you hardly use them as no one really talks on the phone these days. However, there is a 24 month contract and you can't get out of it.
In short, you are paying for something you aren't using. You get this freedom with cloud hosting as you only pay for resources you need or use. If you make the mistake of allocating too much storage or memory. It ensures that you only pay for what you use. You are busy running your business and this is the reason, you can manage the resources you want on the cloud servers, even on your mobile devices which means you can control completely control the resources you want to use even on the go.
Dedicated servers work in a different manner. If more memory is needed, you will need to rent more servers, and a maintenance window will also be needed to upgrade the specs. However, you do get a certain level of control when it comes to dedicated servers. You can access your dedicated server through web browser to check server status or to perform quick updates. You can even perform hardware reboots.
A dedicated server is the right choice in situations where demand is predictable. It is for situations where you know what you need. On the other hand, cloud hosting offers the advantage of scaling up or down as per your requirements. You might not need all that space and memory right in the beginning, and there is no point in paying for it if you aren’t going to utilize all the space available on a dedicated server.
One of the biggest advantages of a dedicated hosting solution is that everything is available to you alone which means you never have to worry about other people on a virtual machine slowing you down when they begin to use a bigger amount of the RAM or CPU. There is a real chance of this happening with disk IO. If other users on the clouds server start making a lot of write requests to the virtual machine they own, the performance of your virtual machine on the same server will suffer.
If the world was perfect, nothing will ever go wrong. We offer 99.99% uptime guarantee for our dedicated servers. However, we go a step further with our resilient and redundant cloud servers as we boast of a 99.999% uptime guarantee. However, if things go wrong, you know that you are in good hands.
