"Cloud" is so worn out in advertising that it has stopped meaning anything. In our catalogue it means something concrete: a virtual machine of your own, with a private network and a higher growth ceiling than a VPS.
Side by side
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Shared hosting |
Cloud |
| Resources |
Resources shared with other accounts, with per-account limits (CPU, memory and processes). |
Reserved, with a higher ceiling: up to 16 vCPU and 60 GB of RAM. Public network plus a private network between your machines. |
| Administration |
Ours. System, security and updates are on us. |
Yours, same as a VPS: delivered with the OS and root access. |
| Control panel |
cPanel included. |
Not included, bought separately. |
| Growing |
Change plan in minutes, no migration. |
Scales higher, and links several machines over the private network. |
| Backups |
Taken by us every night before dawn. |
Not included, bought separately. |
| Built for |
Company websites, small and medium shops, business e-mail. |
Projects that grow in layers — application on one machine, database on another. |
The short answer
If what you have is a website, shared hosting does the same job with less effort and no administration. Cloud pays off when the project stops being "a website" and becomes a system with separate pieces that need to talk to each other over a closed network.
Signs it is time to move
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You are going to split the application and the database across machines.
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You need several machines to talk without going over the public internet.
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You expect to grow beyond what the largest shared plan allows.
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What does not change with the plan. The domain stays registered in your name and e-mail can come along. Migrating does not force an address change or lose messages — it is planned and done without the site going offline.
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If you are not sure, tell us what the site does and how much traffic it gets. Asking costs less than moving twice.
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We will tell you the right option for your case, with no push towards the dearest plan.
Talk to our team
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