@https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/centex-hosting.75793/ and cloud hosting? Is that same like what they do with wordpress hosting like shared hosting ? or is cloud hosting a little fast than shared?
Hello
@Qasim Khan,
The term cloud hosting is used by a lot of hosting providers lately and it looks almost all the amateurs to hosting are confused with it's definition.
In general, the term cloud is used in 2 different areas of the hosting.
1. Cloud Linux.
In simple terms, It's an linux operating system where your data is isolated unlike other *nix operating systems where your data is stored and shared in the same partition/drives and if a file gets infected, it's possible for it to spread to other files which actually means other users data stored on the same server/partition/drive might get infected as well.
2. Cloud Server.
I believe this is what you were referring to in your OP. In layman terms, A cloud server has a lot more physical processors hence cores and Memory(RAM). Simple as that.
So let's say you buy a hosting account from a cloud service provider and let's assume 1GB RAM and 1 core and 10 GB Storage is allocated for your account. You can install cloudlinux or any operating system as you wish on this server or the service provider can install Wordpress on it for you. We generally call it as a VPS as it's no different than a VPS.
Now you're getting a lot more traffic on your site and it starts lagging and you want to increase it's performance so all you have to do is increase the processing power. In order to do that, you simply upgrade your cloud hosting package and the cpu cores and memory and storage will be increased on-the-fly
without any downtime.
Basically, this is what a cloud service/hosting does. But as you see, the data is still stored on the same physical servers and there will be a lot more users like you who owns some space on that server.
Is it not shared? Generally yes and technically no, as all the resources allocated for you can be only used by you and not anyone else.
Now back to your question,
Is cloud hosting a little fast than shared?
There is a thing called overselling in hosting. So many users are cramped into a single server as much as possible due to competition in this business even if they advertise it as dedicated wordpress hosting. Even the wpengine's wordpress hosting is advertised as fastest wordpress hosting, it is still a shared hosting as more than one site is hosted on a single server.
If you truly want the speed, you should go with a managed vps/dedicated server set-up. No single hosting company can beat it's speed.
