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In times of crisis and tight budgets companies of all sizes, and even startups, look for efficient ways to meet their hosting needs.

With the arrival of cloud computing, a new possibility of hosting was born, unlike the traditional hosting model that the market knew as hosting.

Although the cloud is no longer new, some professionals still confuse both hosting services. So in this post, we will explain the main differences between them.

Hosting or traditional hosting

We know hosting or traditional hosting as a way to offer unique features in an environment that hosts applications, IT solutions or assets, where the responsibility of managing maintenance tasks and keeping everything running is the role of the company that offers this type of hosting.

For this, the company that provides hosting services provides the infrastructure, such as the data center to store your customer data protecting, replicating and ensuring the security of these applications. There are two forms of hosting, dedicated hosting or shared hosting.

Dedicated Hosting:

In this model a company pays the full resources of one or more servers of a service provider. The clienthas a set amount of dedicated bandwidth, CPU, RAM, and space on the drive and has full control over the resources of the servers.

Shared Hosting:

Shared hosting, as its name implies, pays you for a set amount of storage on a single server, and the resources on that server are shared, being the responsibility of the management, maintenance and updating of the hosting company.

This hosting model is common among small and medium-sized businesses, as it is an economical and low-maintenance model for hosting for example a website or applications.

Hosting Features

In the traditional hosting model, mainly the shared one, the resources of a single server are shared between different clients, and if the server happens to face some technical problem or some fault, all the hostages can be affected.

Perhaps performance may be reduced in case of data traffic peaks. In addition, with the hosting you pay for a predefined amount of storage and processing, which may be of interest to companies with a predictable traffic flow.

If this is not your business model, and your traffic is unstable and can increase rapidly, such as for example in e-commerce when you do some promotion or some low in the dollar, you may be surprised by the response of this type Storage.

In these cases, you’ll need to adapt by buying additional space on the server to increase its storage and processing power, but if the traffic returns to normal, you can pay a price for a period that has not been used.

Hosting on cloud

We talk a lot here about cloud computing, which is nothing more than storing data and applications in the cloud, which offers a higher level of scalability than traditional hosting. Being a resource-based computing model, it does not require local servers to handle the data.

Cloud providers offer their virtual storage space on demand as needed by the customer. Instead of paying for a fixed amount of initial space with the hosting model, you pay for what you actually use, speaking of the public cloud model.

Using the cloud, the load balances on a multi-server cluster. The information and applications contained in these servers are mirrored throughout the cluster, which means that if an individual server crashes, there is no loss of information or downtime.

This redundancy increases the cloud’s elasticity making this service more resilient. With the cloud, it is very difficult for applications or data problems to affect performance.

Cloud Computing Features

Elasticity – When we talk about increased elasticity, one of the main benefits found in cloud services is the increase in data storage and processing capacity, as well as a simple structure reduction.

That is, the cloud is able to work according to the demand that your company needs, increasing or decreasing its storage capacity in an easy way.

Scalability – With a wide variety of service scopes and scopes, cloud solutions enable your business to be scalable, hiring services to the extent they are needed, without the need for large one-time investment, or running the risk of operating with one Their real needs.

Pay for use and reduce costs – As the framework used has all this scalability and elasticity of use, its cost follows the same premise, ie you only pay for what you actually consume and this positively impacts your business and operation.

With cloud computing it is possible to better allocate the investment according to what your company will actually use. Knowing how to manage the services, the reduction of costs with infrastructure is very noticeable.

Conclusion

When comparing  hosting and cloud computing, the cloud model approaching this comparison would be the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), infrastructure as a service, which houses, executes, and maintains all the hardware the customer needs, and pays only for the resources An interesting example of comparing is with the way we pay for electricity in our homes, just by what we use.

One of the key differences between the models is that the cloud can be more rapidly scalable than traditional hosting. If an application or site receives more or less traffic, cloud servers scale up and down automatically, without the need to manually add or remove space on the server.

Speaking of contractual matters, hosting is easier than the company that offers the service to conform to the contractual terms that the client that is hiring needs. With public cloud providers, contracts are rigid and often follow the same pattern for any customer.

Whichever way your business chooses, you need to make sure that all your needs are met, whether in the traditional hosting model or with the cloud.