Hosting type
Cloud hosting
Cloud hosting spreads your site across a pool of connected servers rather than one machine, so it can scale on demand and shrug off the failure of any single node. You generally pay for what you use.
The appeal is elasticity and resilience: traffic spikes get absorbed by adding resources rather than falling over, and there is no single server to take you offline. The catch is that pay-as-you-go pricing can be unpredictable, so look closely at how billing works and whether there are caps. For steady workloads a fixed VPS is often cheaper; for spiky or mission-critical sites, cloud earns its keep.
Best for
- •Sites with unpredictable or seasonal traffic
- •Apps that need high uptime and redundancy
- •Fast-growing projects that must scale quickly
- •Teams that want to pay for usage, not a fixed box
What to check before you buy
- •How billing works: fixed plan or pay-as-you-go
- •Whether scaling is automatic or manual
- •The uptime SLA and redundancy model
- •Data-transfer and egress charges
- •Which regions and data centres are available
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Strengths
- Scales up and down on demand
- No single point of failure
- Strong uptime and redundancy
Trade-offs
- Usage-based bills can be hard to predict
- More moving parts to understand
- Can cost more than a fixed VPS for steady loads
Common questions
Hosting that runs your site across a cluster of servers instead of one, pooling their resources. It can scale on demand and keep running if one server fails, which makes it resilient and elastic.
A VPS is a fixed slice of one physical machine. Cloud hosting draws on many machines, so it can grow beyond any single server and survive hardware failure. Cloud is more elastic; a VPS is simpler and often cheaper for steady traffic.
It can be, especially with pay-as-you-go billing during traffic spikes. For predictable workloads a fixed VPS may cost less. Compare the plans here on real price before deciding.
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