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What is the Difference between cloud hosting and shared hosting ? Then I will figure out which one is suitable according to my need?
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This is actually easy to understand.

"Cloud" is not a type of hosting. Any company that pretends that cloud is some sort of special hosting platform is either (A) being intentionally deceitful or (B) doesn't understand "cloud" themselves. In both cases, they should be avoided.

"Cloud" is the infrastructure. Traditional hosting is a single server hosting your content. Or a single server hosting the services that run your site (an email server, a SQL databases server, a file server or SAN). "Cloud" is multiple computers powering each service. The main benefit of cloud is that everything is redundant. If one server goes down, you never notice. With higher-end clouds, sometimes several servers can go down, and yet you'd never notice.

Some clouds claim to be "scalable", but that's really a myth. It's no more or less scalable than traditional servers.

Some cloud providers use "utility billing", like Amazon (AWS). That means you pay not monthly, but by actual usage. Sometimes this is good, sometimes not.

Cloud hosting is still shared -- either "shared web hosting" or a virtual server (VPS).
A "private cloud" is the equivalent to dedicated.

Sadly, in recent years, the term has been raped. To companies like Digital Ocean, "cloud" is a synonym for "online". They're not using cloud infrastructure. So sometimes a "cloud" is not a cloud at all. Details matter.

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