Cloud Server vs VPS(Virtual Private Server)

[Sean]

Cloud hosting offers many advantages over normal VPS or Semi-Dedicated server hosting services due to the number of servers that are being used for a single cluster, and if you or your business rely greatly on your website, Cloud hosting is the best suitable option for you. The enhanced architecture powering Cloud hosting solution utilize groups of high specification servers, network attached storage devices to reliably serve every web page, and image of a website. Inside each storage device, drives are replicated to each other in a RAID configuration to create a first level of redundancy.

With Virtual Private server, you will not get guaranteed resources that you will pay for, which means other user of the VPS node could squeeze in on your allotted resources but this is not case with Cloud server, you will get the guaranteed amount of resources you are paying for and it's always available when you need them. In addition to all these features, you will also get the ability to customize the resources of Cloud server anytime. VPS is not at all reliable when compared to Cloud server because VPS is based on software virtualization platform. Each platform of servers have their merits and demerits but here there are no demerits of Cloud server, so now it depends on you whether to choose VPS or Cloud server after understanding the needs and the service that you are looking.

[Arguille]

I'm glad to have read this information. Now if Cloud Server is so much better than VPS then why do you still offer VPS? Pardon me for saying this directly but I can't find words to say it more politely.

Anyway, I have another question. Does it mean that VPS users use the same server while cloud hosting has many different servers?

[Catherine]

Now if Cloud Server is so much better than VPS then why do you still offer VPS?

Well, VPS's have their own benefits in comparison to a Cloud Server and one of these benefits is the difference between the price. Though, the difference is not too much but there is still a difference

Also, some of the users still prefer VPS technology and consider it as very reliable (no doubt, it is ). Therefore, we still offer VPS hosting plans in order to make sure that customers can choose a hosting solution as per their choice and we have a variety of products to offer

Does it mean that VPS users use the same server while cloud hosting has many different servers?

Cloud Servers are setup on a Cluster which includes a number of servers, whereas, a number of VPS's are setup on the same Dedicated Server which is also called as a VPS node

Please feel free to post if you have any further questions.

[srichards]

I have 3 questions concerning cloud vs vps:

1) why is plesk control panel much more expensive on a cloud than on a vps? Unlimited domains is £15 a month on a cloud and only £6 on a vps.

2) uptime guarantee: is that up as in pingeable or up as in basic services working ie web access, email etc.

3) How easy is to migrate from a vps to a cloud? I'd want to retain the 2 ips I have at the moment as it is a complete pain to change dns for each domain. Is that possible?

TIA!

[Noel]

more questions

Is it possible to run Ruby on Rails on a Cloud Server?
Could I install ffmpeg and other media processing tools?

[Scott]

1) why is plesk control panel much more expensive on a cloud than on a vps? Unlimited domains is £15 a month on a cloud and only £6 on a vps.

>> Cloud VM is a dedicated virtual machine. We need to install dedicated server license for plesk control panel which is expensive as compare to plesk license for virtuozzo container.

2) uptime guarantee: is that up as in pingeable or up as in basic services working ie web access, email etc.

>> Up-time guarantee is pingable. VM will get rebooted automatically to the differnent node if something goes wrong with the node on which VM is hosted. Up-time of internal services depends on the resources usage of VM.

3) How easy is to migrate from a vps to a cloud? I'd want to retain the 2 ips I have at the moment as it is a complete pain to change dns for each domain. Is that possible?

>> Migration of websites over to cloud VM is very easy. We can migrate the websites using plesk migration manager. Unfortunately it is not possible to retain same IP address on cloud VM, as cluster is setup in completely different RACK.

[eUK-Ken]

more questions

Is it possible to run Ruby on Rails on a Cloud Server?
Could I install ffmpeg and other media processing tools?

Hello,

Yes You can surely run Ruby on Rails on a Cloud Server, as well as you can install ffmpeg and other media processing tools.

If you have a ny such request we can do the installation for you and can guide you through the step by step installation procedure as well.

Regards,
Ken.

[srichards]

Thanks for the info.

[Arguille]

Well, I'm lost with some of the name of the programs here but I guess that it is all good if all the features in VPS is also available in cloud server. Is it good for a person starting a website, like me, to start with cloud server immediately?

[eUK-Ken]

Hello,

If you would let me know the exact purpose of yours then i can suggest you which Hosting plan you shall go for i.e you shall go for the VPS or the cloud VPS.

Regards,
Ken,
Support Team.

[Noel]

Thanks. I like the idea of 100% up-time.

The vps option seems like very good value though and more incremental in pricing.

it's good to have both options.

[palcom]

Well, VPS's have their own benefits in comparison to a Cloud Server and one of these benefits is the difference between the price. Though, the difference is not too much but there is still a difference

Also, some of the users still prefer VPS technology and consider it as very reliable (no doubt, it is ). Therefore, we still offer VPS hosting plans in order to make sure that customers can choose a hosting solution as per their choice and we have a variety of products to offer



Cloud Servers are setup on a Cluster which includes a number of servers, whereas, a number of VPS's are setup on the same Dedicated Server which is also called as a VPS node

Please feel free to post if you have any further questions.

Price difference is ok, but I fail to understand what do you mean by vps being very reliable, do you mean it is more reliable than cloud servers?

[jennifer]

Price difference is ok, but I fail to understand what do you mean by vps being very reliable, do you mean it is more reliable than cloud servers?

VPS still remains reliable. But then reliability is improved if multiple servers are in use. The hosting is spread across the entire Cloud which makes cloud hosting more reliable.

[palcom]

Thanks Jennifer, you are right.

[paul]

For both plan I believe there are availability of system security services/ security assessment and the host providers are implementing disaster recovery plan, utilizing multiple Hard Drives in a RAID Array to ensure high availability with redundant infrastructure so I don't think we should worry about the performance and reliability.

[srichards]

Is the cloud way of doing things more tolerant of run aways/over loading? With vps technology I have noticed that other vps systems hosted on the same physical machine can impact on each others performance. Are clouds better at coping with this?

[eUKShane]

Hello,

Yes, on cloud computing we uses hardware virtualization technology where you gets dedicated hardware resources for your VM. You can refer following threads for detailed information, you will find the exact difference between hardware virtualization and software virtualization :

Note : Please check my replies to following threads.

http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f13/wh...-paying-10299/

http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f10/hy...033/#post69860

http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f29/vm...er-v-r2-11079/

Let me know if you still have any questions.

[Veronica]

Cloud hosting and VPS hosting, both are very efficient forms of hosting. The only difference in in the factors of affordability. Cloud hosting is much more affordable because with the cloud hosting framework, you only have to pay for the resources you use while in case of VPS hosting, you have to pay for all the resources that you have access to. Moreover the cloud hosting framework also provides faster scalability in comparison to the other forms of hosting.