Cloud Hosting VS VPS Hosting: Which is more relevant in 2015?

Some companies have the impression that virtual private servers (VPS) and private clouds are the same thing, but these terms aren’t interchangeable. While the differences between virtual private server (VPS) hosting and cloud hosting might look slight at first glance, it can mean all the difference in the world for businesses.

Take a look at these key differences between VPS Hosting and private cloud server hosting, and for more information.

Server Setup:

In VPS Hosting, the server is a single physical server, split up between a limited numbers of users. It is a similar hosting set-up to a shared server, where many user accounts are located on the same server. The main difference between these two server setups is that VPS accounts have fewer users per box, and the users get more control over their section of the server. Virtualization software divides the users from each other, although you’re not entirely isolated from being affected by other people on your server.

A private cloud uses distributed resources across multiple physical servers. The redundancy allows for a smooth transition to the other servers in a network in the incident of a hardware failure or any other problem.

The Impact of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on Enterprises

Two years from now, the biggest driver for cloud adoption won’t be traditional applications, it’ll be mobile apps. Disparate workforces already make Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) a cost of doing business for the enterprise: More types of enterprise work will require more types of mobile applications. And that will burden IT leaders mandated with managing the cloud. To retain control, those IT leaders will embrace private PaaS technologies to provide integrated application management of mobile (and Web and cloud) applications.

Marketers spin idealized tales of cross-cloud hybrid love, with capacity-enabling bursts to the public cloud, easy multi-datacenter application administration, better security management, and redundancy/failover operational models abstracted from the developers and employees doing the actual work. It’s a great, achievable vision. But for most enterprises, that hybrid cloud vision is still a couple of years away. Which is why they’re investing in private PaaS architectures now. Today’s enterprise cloud adopters see private cloud - and in particular, private PaaS technology - as the path to tomorrow’s hybrid cloud glory.

To differentiate themselves against commoditization, IaaS service providers will continue to incorporate PaaS technology into their infrastructure service offerings. Service breadth will expand, prices will fall and small business will embrace the low-cost public cloud. But those competitive pricing scenarios will challenge small standalone public PaaS providers as VC funds dry up and competitors either partner with or get absorbed into larger Cloud Computing corporations.