The Cloud can sometimes be a hard thing to explain to people. With traditional web hosting you’re able to physically see the machines and hardware used to provision web hosting accounts. Since the Cloud is made up of multiple devices it can get a bit confusing how the entire process works.
We’ve put together the following infographic to further help illustrate the difference between traditional web hosting (using one physical dedicated server) vs. cloud web hosting (using unlimited servers):
Some benefits of Cloud Web Hosting:
- Highest level of website performance guaranteed by multiple servers
- Guaranteed server resources (CPU, RAM)
- Redundant data storage
- No single point of failure
- Website growth flexibility
- Lower pricing
- Resources to scale up or down depending on growth optimizing your hosting costs.
- Security guaranteed by many servers
Share this infographic with your fellow webmasters to explain the difference!
Hmmmmm, maybe I made the wrong decision to switch to setting up my own mini virtual private servers. While I know have a one-to-one relationship between sites and servers, each site is still reliant on that single server for operation. Still a single point of failure. I may need to look more closely at Cloud Web Hosting. Just not sure how it fits into my workflow and how my code would run properly on multiple machines simultaneously.