Why Cloud Hosting Is Better Than Shared Web Hosting

By Author: Abdul Razzak
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It's been more than four years, I meet people and clients for providing them hosting solutions. In recent years, people have opted for better hosting solutions in terms of load time and performance. People often are confused what is the best type of hosting server for their mid level websites or projects. Earlier there were less options apart from shared hosting. Either we had an affordable Shared Web Hosting or Virtual Private Servers (VPS), which costed more than double of the price of shared hosting.

In recent times, Cloud Hosting has gained huge popularity, due to its performance and cost effectiveness.

What is Cloud Hosting?

Cloud hosting is the latest form of hosting that has become extremely popular over the past few years. The main concept of cloud hosting is "Divide and Rule" - the resources required for maintaining your website are spread across a cluster of servers that work together, termed as "the cloud". This greatly reduces chances of any down times in case of a server malfunction.

Below are some features that make Cloud Hosting so much in demand:

Blazing-Fast Load Time: With ...
... top-of-the-line hardware, Varnish caching - which stores your site's most used pages, and a globally distributed CDN, your site is served upto 2x faster. In short, your website loads much faster than compared to in Shared Web Hosting.

Instant Scaling: Unlike Shared Web Hosting, there is no need to move your hosting as your traffic grows. Ramp up your resources at the click of a button - instantly add RAM and CPU without a reboot. I just happens with some clicks. No much technical knowledge required.

cPanel for Management: Just like Shared Hosting, manage you files, emails and sub-domains with the simplicity and ease of cPanel. This makes it more user friendly to users who have used cPanel in past.

What is the difference between Cloud Hosting and Shared Hosting?

When a website is hosted on Shared Hosting, the website is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds. Typically in this setup, all domains share resources, such as RAM and CPU from the same server. Cloud hosting, on the other hand, offers nearly unlimited ability to handle high traffic spikes. On Cloud, your website is hosted not only on one but on several servers connected to work as one. Your websites don't depend on only one Server- even if one server is inaccessible, the Data is retrieved and processed by the other available servers with no downtime.

Cloud Hosting provides greater protection for overwhelmed servers. If one server is over whelmed, automatically you are switched to another server. This makes Cloud Hosting idle for websites which are likely to have heavy traffic.