Changing times cannot be separated from changes in technological knowledge found on this earth. One of the technologies that is currently developing in Indonesia is Cloud Computing technology. With this technology, we no longer find it difficult to find, store, and manage data and mechanism information.
Many business people in Indonesia are starting to increase their business by using the Cloud mechanism, because it is easier and faster and can be reached anytime and anywhere. There’s a lot to get from this cloud mechanism, for example: Hosting Sites, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and Cloud Servers/Virtual Data Centers (Dedicated Servers).
But, do you know the difference between the 3? If not, Cloud Users don’t need to worry, We will provide information about the 3 of them. The following is a description and difference between Hosting Sites, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and Cloud Servers/Virtual Data Centers. Here’s his narrative.
What is a Web Hosting?
A web hosting is a place or center for loading files and data from a website so that the website can be accessed via the internet. Files and data can be in the form of images, scripts or code, emails, databases, domains, and other files or data.
Web host supply services generally offer various types of hosting sites according to needs. Parts of this type are generally distinguished from resources, eg CPU, RAM, storage, and so on.
Apart from the resources, the distribution of the types of hosting service packages can also be distinguished by a number of users, for example there are hosting packages that are shared with several people, or better known as shared hosting, and dedicated hosting packages or only for one person.
What is a VPS?
VPS or Virtual Private Server is a dedicated server service or one server for one user. This VPS service is generally used as a hosting site for those who need more resources for their website.
So what’s the difference between a VPS and a hosting site?
The difference between hosting and VPS is in the freedom of use. By using a VPS, you can determine what operating mechanism your server will use. Apart from that, you are also free to install any programs or programs on your VPS. In short, VPS is the perfect option for companies that want complete control over their hosting or servers.
What Is a Virtual Data Center?
A virtual data center offers more or less the same thing as a general data center organization. The difference is that virtual data centers take advantage of cloud-based resources rather than physically located resources.
Virtual data centers offer everything an enterprise needs when it comes to the cloud; Starting from processing power, memory, storage, to bandwidth. You can set how much you need for each element. Therefore, you can adjust your budget and needs very easily.
With Cloud Server/VDC, you can create virtual machines, containers, or Docker with multiple operating mechanism options.
With Cloud Server/VDC, users can use server resources/resources freely because server administration is managed or owned by the server owner. Dedicated servers are commonly used by hosting service providers (VPS/Shared Hosting), application or web service providers that have high traffic and require quite high resources.
What’s the difference between Hosting, VPS and Virtual Data Center?
After understanding what each technology means, it’s time for you to understand what each technology compares to. This can be very important when you are going to choose the 3rd service. Here are the differences between hosting, VPS, and virtual data centers that you need to know:
1. Performance Factor
In speaking terms, it is clear that the virtual data center (VDC) has advantages over the 3 of them. This is because the resources available and reachable by VDC are more numerous and broader than hosting and virtual private servers (VPS).
Of the 3, hosting has the lowest performance, especially hosting with the shared hosting type. This is because the resources you have will be shared with several people using similar hosting.
2. Price factor
Here, hosting and VPS have the advantage because prices are cheaper than virtual data centers. However, in some hosting packages that are quite high-end or special in character, you will often find hosting prices that offer different guides with VPS.
This price difference usually makes some people decide to use a VPS service which, even though it has a slightly expensive price, offers better quality performance compared to even the most expensive hosting packages, for example a dedicated cloud hosting service.
3. Elasticity
When it comes to freedom of features a few things you need, then the virtual data center is clearly on the top status.
Meanwhile, VPS is in 2nd place. The difference between VPS and VDC is that VPS can only give you access to one architecture or machine virtualization.
4. Security
In terms of security, VDC and VPS are in a similar status. With both of them, you can create the security rules you need, for example you can create your own disaster recovery plan.
However, hosting has security that you can prioritize. You also don’t need to worry because usually the hosting company itself will create a security mechanism for your hosting.
The difference is that hosting is prone to cyber attacks because if one hosting is attacked and connected via shared hosting, then there is a chance that other hosting will also be attacked.
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