Does cloud hosting have any advantages than VPS?

[peterhosting]

Cloud hosting and VPS, what's their differences?
And compared to VPS, does cloud server have any advantages?

 

[mohammad farhan]

A cloud server or cloud hostingis necessary a VPS server. The main advantages are:
1. Clouds have a pay-as-you-go model while VPS usually has a fixed monthly price that includes certain bandwidth.
2. Clouds are usually accessible via an API allowing you for dynamic resource provisioning
VPS are focused on the server/computer with hard disk local storage while clouds usually.
3. Provide more services such as the database, load balancing, networking, etc.

 

[peterhosting]

A cloud server or cloud hostingis necessary a VPS server. The main advantages are:
1. Clouds have a pay-as-you-go model while VPS usually has a fixed monthly price that includes certain bandwidth.
2. Clouds are usually accessible via an API allowing you for dynamic resource provisioning
VPS are focused on the server/computer with hard disk local storage while clouds usually.
3. Provide more services such as the database, load balancing, networking, etc.

So cloud hosting is a kind of service now, nor hardware resources rent like VPS/Dedi-servers?

 

[markbranson]

A cloud server is essentially a VPS server.

the differences are subtle and vary based on your definition of what is a 'cloud' . The main differences are:

- Clouds are usually accessible via an API allowing you for dynamic resource provisioning

- Clouds have a pay-as-you-go model, while VPS usually has a fixed monthly price that includes certain bandwidth

- VPS is focused on the server/compute with hard disk local storage while clouds usually provide more services such as database, load balancing, networking, etc.

 

[pravinganore]

Cloud hosting and VPS, what's their differences?
And compared to VPS, does cloud server have any advantages?

From my point of view both services have a place dependent on need, environment, application and supporting IT team.