Cloud Vs. VPS Hosting Performance

[Trimy]

In terms of Scalability, Availability and Pricing Cloud is always ahead of virtual private servers. However, I would like to know that, how do you measure the performance of cloud versus vps hosting? What you have to say about the performance of cloud vs. vps?

[Macdale]

If a customer requires additional server resources, the customer can be switched in moments to another server having sufficient amount of server resources, where the customer can max out the complete server if required. On cloud, a customer is never limited on resources and any issue can be resolved with greater flexibility of the solution.

The most common issue with vps is that it doesn't have any centralized storage, due to which is can be very incalculable in terms of performance, because you really don't have any idea with whom you are sharing a server.

[SeanyG]

In addition to that, if another customer decides to utilize all of the CPU on that server, there is no way to switch you to another server without taking your whole website down and moving your over a new server. With cloud servers, you can easily make decisions and move your website to another server without effecting your websites uptime.

[mischayahd]

SeanyG is right on whenever you want to move your website to another server cloud hosting will be way much better than VPS. Thanks for adding that info.

[Stan Paine]

Performance can be judged based on 2 basic criterion, namely CPU resource and RAM. VPS offers guaranteed RAM and created VPSs equally share the CPU resources of the physical server. Whereas, Cloud server is setup on a High Availability cluster and is known for its Scalability, Availability and Reliability. Cloud server provides guaranteed CPU as well as RAM, unlike VPS, which offers only guaranteed RAM. Keeping individual resource scalability feature in mind Cloud Server wins hands down!!

[THOMAS-UK]

Don't forget storage when you're talking about performance. This is often underestimated. It's definitely not only CPU and RAM anymore. Our cloud servers are running on an enterprise storage platform which is often faster than the hard disks in most dedicated servers are capable of. This includes eNlight but also VMware and HyperV based cloud services.

In the end the difference between VPS and cloud hosting services is the level of redundancy. As said centralized storage along with some other technologies are making sure the servers hosted with us don't suffer from hardware failure. A normal VPS in most situations doesn't offer that level of redundancy. That doesn't mean a VPS has no redundancy though. These nodes are still equipped with redundant components.

[mountainman]

Cloud Computing is very impacting small business models of IT organizations already established. In the short term will likely see the implementations of solutions in Cloud complementing the existing solutions in the traditional model.

[Dennis]

In the end the difference between VPS and cloud hosting services is the level of redundancy. As said centralized storage along with some other technologies are making sure the servers hosted with us don't suffer from hardware failure. A normal VPS in most situations doesn't offer that level of redundancy. That doesn't mean a VPS has no redundancy though. These nodes are still equipped with redundant components.

I have experienced the opposite when my VM was down for almost 4 hours. Support said that it was because there was some issue on the main node server of the eNlight.

That was it and anything I was left with!
Im very disappointed with such false statements.