VPS and cloud hosting have different advantages over traditional shared and dedicated servers. But how can you choose one over the other?
The advantages and disadvantages of the two services vary based on your specific project and goals. We’ll break down some of the most typical situations when you have to choose between two choices and determine which to take.
Choose VPS Hosting When:
Your project is still in development, and your budget is limited, but you still need to grow your shared plan and require reliable performance.
Your website’s traffic patterns are consistent and regular.
You require a user-friendly hosting platform and are happy to leave some server maintenance duties to your host’s professionals.
What kind of hardware resources you’ll require soon can be predicted accurately.
Choose Cloud Hosting when:
You run a huge international company that must succeed everywhere in the world.
Unexpected traffic spikes can happen on your website.
You possess the technical know-how to configure the hosting environment exactly how you desire.
When your website receives more traffic, you have the money in your budget to pay for greater hosting costs.
Switching Between Hosting Types
Many people are concerned about changing the hosting they use because they believe it will result in costly downtime. The fact is that migrating a website between accounts can be easy, especially if the two platforms use similar administrative tools.
Creating a backup on the old server and restoring it on the new one is frequently all that is required. You can test everything before updating the domain’s name servers and pointing it to the new account.
