What’s the Difference between VPS and Cloud Servers

What’s the Difference between VPS and Cloud Servers?

There is a lot of discussions lately about cloud computing or cloud hosting. Many companies are using these terms loosely to debate over either VPS or cloud servers (public or private) or dedicated servers. But, what do these terms mean? You will definitely see a difference once you check out the worth tag, so understanding what each of those services is will assist you in your quest to work out the best option for you or your company.

To help you out, here is a description of each and even some of the pros and cons.

Virtual Private Server

Definition of VPS Servers: within the arrangement of VPS, one physical web server, splitted into various smaller pieces of server in order that each bit of server behaves as its own separate server environment. In simple words, a VPS is a partitioned piece of huge physical server that comes with its own Operating system (OS), CPU Power, RAM, bandwidth, webspace, etc.

Advantages:

• Typically less expensive than cloud servers.
• No data or file access occurs between VPS clients on the shared server.  They are kept separate.
• If needed one VPS is often rebooted without affecting other VPSs on a shared server.

Disadvantages:

• They do not offer high-availability. If a physical server fails, all VPSs thereon the server fail.
• There can be security concerns. If a customer on your shared server doesn't take security seriously, and gets hacked or gets an epidemic , then your VPS might be negatively affected.
• Computing resources are shared between all clients, therefore, RAM, CPU performance &  bandwidth are often affected if another VPS on the shared server is demanding a far better load.
• Only one OS is often utilized by each physical server.
• They are not scalable. Storage is based on physical server limitations. Once you meet your max VPS capacity, you've got to either buy more room or check out other options. This could take many hours or days of downtime to migrate to a new solution.

Cloud Servers

Definition of Cloud Servers: The Cloud servers offered by multiple top leading hosting companies and Cloud servers, use several servers related to each cluster which is supported by SAN (storage area network) based storage. By using a Cloud server you can get the benefits of multiple servers with unlimited resources.

Advantages:

• Scalable – add more server power during a moment’s notice.
• Custom Infrastructure - clients can include custom specification, firewalls, load balancing, and IP deployment.
• High Availability - if a physical server fails, cloud servers are migrated to a different physical server without experiencing an outage.
• Burstable Computing Resources - no concern about lagging RAM or CPU power, albeit another cloud customer's load grows.
• Cloud is Completely secure since you virtually have your own server. If a client on the shared cloud gets hacked or gets an epidemic, your cloud server is going to be completely separated with no risk to your data.
• Each customer on the cloud can select their specific OS.
• It has Unlimited storage because it's predicated on SAN(Storage area network) storage.

Disadvantages:

Typically, a little more expensive than VPS.

As you'll see, the cloud servers are a touch light on the con side. And, if you're utilizing a shared cloud, the value is significantly affordable and there's much upside.

Hopefully, these points have helped clear up a number of the differences between VPS and cloud servers, but if you've got any longer questions or would really like to debate how a cloud server may benefit your business, simply contact us and that we would be happy to assist.