Difference between Cloud hosting and Shared hosting

Prerequisite - Web hosting and its type and How to choose Web Hosting Server and Web Domain ? 1. Cloud hosting : Cloud hosting is one of the premium plan in the market for web hosting. Here the website is hosted on a set or a cluster of servers, many servers and machines are working synchronously as a single entity. Cloud hosting allows to create computing resources using cloud computing facilities. It offers good scalability and flexible in nature so that it easy to increase or decrease resources as per requirement. It is good for websites having high traffic. Its speed and flexibility makes its preferred choice for web hosting. Pros of Cloud Hosting :

• On demand resource - pay on time.
• High availability - reliable.
• Better scalability - flexible.
• Recovering lost data.

Cons of Cloud Hosting :

• Advanced cloud knowledge is required.
• Platform dependency - cloud vendor collaboration
• Limited Control to users in use of services

2. Shared hosting : Shared hosting is one of the most common plan in the market for web hosting as the hosting price is very less. Here one server hosts multiple websites. That's why all websites share common resources like disk space, storage, and bandwidth. It is cost effective especially for websites with lesser traffic as hosting provider handles all technical tasks and also it is easy to use. But some time site loading time may be slow as it is shared also it is not suitable in case of heavy traffic. Pros of Shared Hosting :

• Pricing structure - It’s cheap.
• Ease of use - Beginner friendly.
• Well managed security, upgrades and maintenance.
• No administrative responsibilities

Cons of Shared Hosting :

• Slow load time as it is shared.
• Security gets affected due to shared.
• Lack of server control during overcrowd.
• Does not offer good scalability

Difference between Cloud hosting and Shared hosting :

S.No.	CLOUD HOSTING	SHARED HOSTING
01.	In cloud computing the website is hosted on a set or a cluster of servers, many servers and machines are working synchronously as a single entity.	In shared hosting one server hosts multiple websites.
02.	Cloud hosting is one of the premium plan in the market for web hosting.	Shared hosting is one of the most common plan in the market for web hosting.
03.	Cloud hosting is little bit costly.	Shared hosting is very less price.
04.	It provides better performance than shared hosting as large number of servers are deployed.	It provides comparatively slower performance than cloud hosting as the number of servers deployed are less.
05.	It is good for high traffic sites.	It is good for less traffic sites.
06.	Cloud computing provides high scalability due to the availability of resources.	Shared hosting provides limited scalability as the resource is limited and shared.
07.	In cloud computing multiple server provides resource to website.	In shared hosting a single server provides resources to multiple websites in a shared manner.
08.	In cloud hosting websites loads faster.	In shared hosting websites load slower.
09.	It is more secure than shared hosting.	It is less secure than cloud hosting.
10.	It is based on pay as you go model means pay per use.	It is not based on pay as you go model.
11.	Cloud hosting is more reliable than shared hosting due to its high availability.	Shared hosting is less reliable than cloud hosting as it fails in high availability.
12.	Cloud hosting packages offer better uptime as there is no single point of failure.	Shared hosting packages offer a lower server uptime than cloud hosting as there is a chance of server failure.
13.	It provides very good technical support as compared to shared hosting.	It provides very less technical support when compared to cloud hosting.