Comparing Cloud Servers with Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
By Gary Elfert | April 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
With all the information available about different server options, how do you decide which type is best for your company? You may have heard about both cloud servers and virtual private servers (VPS). Cloud servers and VPS both provide a virtualized application environment for customers, but that’s essentially where the similarities end. Four important factors distinguish cloud servers from VPS:
First, in a VPS environment, many different customers share the same computing resources and operating system kernel. In the cloud platform used by ReliaCloud, each cloud server customer has their own unique operating system.
Second, it is very common to significantly oversubscribe computing resources in a VPS environment. In our cloud server environment when we say your cloud server has 2GB of RAM, we mean that your server actually has 2GB of physical RAM.
Third, cloud servers are billed based on hourly utilization. Most VPS services bill based on monthly utilization.
Last but certainly not least important, our cloud servers include features such as firewall security, high availability, and load balancing that are rarely found within a VPS solution. For example, if the physical computing node on which your VPS is hosted fails, it may take hours to restore your VPS on another computing node. In comparison, your cloud servers would fail over in minutes.
To learn more about cloud servers, visit our Cloud Knowledge Base.
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