As web hosting as a service evolves to meet the needs of a variety of clients, hosting providers are often asked about the specifics of each hosting service, especially cloud and shared hosting. Let's talk about the difference between cloud hosting and shared hosting.

What is shared hosting?

Shared hosting is a web hosting service that allows many websites to share a physical web server and its resources between hosting websites. In a shared hosting package, ideally, the server is split among multiple users and each user ends up sharing a specific amount of bandwidth.

Thus, users share resources such as RAM, disk space, etc. with other users. Think of it this way - you live in a rented house with your roommates. Since you live in the same house, all resources in the house will be shared by everyone living in it. Shared hosting works the same way.

What is a cloud host?

Cloud hosting is a web hosting service where you can acquire computing resources to host data, web services and solutions with the help of cloud computing facilities. You can use the resources of multiple servers instead of limiting yourself to one server location. In cloud hosting, it is the facilitator of a resource that oversees its setup, security, and maintenance. These computing and storage resources are distributed among virtual machines to help balance the computing load.

What is the difference between shared hosting and cloud hosting?

1. Scale. Due to the limited resources of shared hosting, the scale is limited. Cloud hosts provide a large range of expansion.

2. Security, shared hosting and shared environment will increase resistance to attacks, but SSH can be used for protection. Cloud hosting security is much better than a shared environment with multiple layers of recovery options and anti-malware solutions.

3. Resources and configuration, using shared hosting, divide the resources of the server into hosting a large number of websites. With cloud hosting, multiple servers pool resources together to host a large number of websites.

4. In terms of performance, compared with cloud hosting, shared hosting is not very fast. The reason is very simple, that is, the number of deployed servers is small. Cloud hosting is usually better than shared hosting because of the large number of servers deployed.

5. Price, it depends on the provider, but shared hosting is usually cheaper than cloud hosting packages. Cloud is a bit expensive compared to shared hosting.