What is Cloud hosting in simple words?
Cloud hosting is the top-of-the-line website (or application) hosting solution available presently. The technology has already achieved a tremendous level of acceptance in a short period of time. Websites hosted on the Cloud are highly available. This means that hosting resources for each website are replicated on every Cloud server in the cluster. For example, if one cloud server has maximum traffic already, then it automatically routes the query for the specific site to the idle cloud server in the cluster. In other words, Cloud runs the web hosting services, like files storage, SSH, FTP, SFTP, and mail services (for e.g. SMTP), etc., on many different servers simultaneously. This simultaneous allocation of equal resources on the cloud servers in the cluster provides a great deal of reliability. For example, if one of the machines malfunctions, it will not cause a failure or disruption in the entire hosting service.
We purchase extremely powerful servers and load them with RAM. This allows us to make sure your Cloud VPS has full access to the resources of the plan, meaning we do not over-sell the host server capacity.
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and is a method of partitioning a server so that each partition is allowed to act as a virtual dedicated server. Each VPS instance runs its own operating system, has its own bandwidth, disk space and can be individually rebooted.
Technical support is very important with any type of hosting, but when you go from shared hosting to Cloud VPS hosting, you need to make sure you get the best support possible. Shared hosting doesn`t require as much support as Cloud VPS hosting because most of the setup is done for you.
However, Cloud VPS hosting is far different than shared hosting and you need to be sure you have a support team you trust. Ch-Center offers award-winning support from industry experts with over a decade of experience. If you want to make sure the support you get is reliable and knowledgeable, a Cloud VPS hosting package from Ch-Center is the right choice.
Using a Cloud Server has many advantages. Resources are used efficiently so reduce costs compared to a Physical Dedicated Server, and redundancy is high. Cloud (or Virtual) Servers are not tied to a single physical server, therefore if one physical machine fails, the virtual server can be transferred to another (physical server) automatically.
VPS hosting is generally less efficient since it allocates a specified amount of computing resources to each client. Hence, if the requirement increases, the system would not be able to handle the additional inflow. It will simply crash. Same would be the case if the server malfunctions.
Cloud hosting on the other hand tackles the increase differently. Under the cloud environment, the website is hosted on a pool of unified computing resources. This simply means that if one server is reaching its optimum level, then a second server is ready to function. Similarly, if a server fails, the website will still be running as other server will continue to serve the incoming traffic.
If you want reliability and powerful functionality, then Cloud hosting is a great choice. The recent price slashes in Cloud infrastructure from Amazon and the likes shows that the market has immense growth potential. Furthermore, it shows that cloud hosting is getting affordable too.
VPS is made for people who are interested in hosting just a website. While it is powerful, VPS does not guarantee uptime should your website fails due to high traffic or a technical glitch.
The diagram below shows that functioning of both the infrastructure.