Traditional VPS Hosting:
Traditional VMs are created on a stand-alone dedicated server (HyperV server) with local storage. Each VPS can run its own OS and has its own Disk, RAM, vCPU, and bandwidth.
Cloud Hosting:
The functionality of cloud VMs is the same, except each Cloud VM is hosted on a separate HyperV cluster (the number of HyperVisor servers connected to the control panel). Additionally, Cloud VMs have separate SAN storage rather than the local storage of traditional VPS hosting. This platform is redundant, highly scalable, and failover protected, ensuring no downtime.
Let us take a quick look at some of the key differences between Cloud VPS Hosting and Traditional VPS Hosting.
Fault Tolerance
- Every component in the cloud is redundant. If any component of a single node fails, it will automatically switch to the other HyperV node immediately.
- In traditional VPS hosting, your VPS is hosted on a single dedicated server. If any component of this server fails, all the VMs on this server will experience downtime until the hosting provider fixes the issue.
Storage
- Cloud Hosting uses SAN storage.
- RAID 10 Enterprise Grade Nimble SAN storage
Upgrade/Downgrade
- With Linux Cloud VPS, upgrades & downgrades are both possible.
- With Windows Cloud VPS, downgrading RAM, vCPU, and Bandwidth is possible, but downgrading disk space is not.
- With traditional Linux VPS, upgrades & downgrades are both possible.
- With traditional Windows VPS, RAM, vCPU, and Bandwidth downgrades are possible, but disk space downgrades are not.
Load Balancing
- Cloud hosting can share the load of one server with other connected servers.
- Since VPS is hosted on a single server, it can not provide the load balancing feature.
