Cloud server Hosting
Cloud server hosting runs websites or applications on interconnected virtual servers. The cloud servers are highly secured hosting. The cloud server is a virtualized server offered by the service provider. The cloud servers run based on a cloud computing environment. High availability is one of the main advantage of Cloud servers. It perform functions similar to physical servers but have many advantages over physical/bare metal servers. A cloud service provider hosts it. The cloud hosting service provider maintains the cloud server infrastructure. Cloud server has numerous advantages over a physical metal server. Cloud servers are created using virtualization software.
What is a bare-metal server?
The bare metal server is a physical server where users can rent a physical server from the service providers. The bare metal server is exclusively dedicated to a single user. It uses the physical servers for hosting, and the hardware is installed physically. It offers full control over the server hardware and resources. Operating systems are installed directly on the hardware. There is no virtualization in the bare metal server. It is a popular server configuration widely used, but it is not suitable for all types of business. The bare metal server also has some disadvantages.
Disadvantages of Bare Metal Servers
Limited Scalability
One of the main disadvantages of bare metal servers is scalability. If you want to upgrade your bare metal server, you need to purchase new physical hardware. It will be a time-consuming process. No downgrade is possible in the bare metal server.
Longer deployment times
While installing a physical server, it will lead to delays during installation. This is because setting up and installing hardware physically takes a long time.
Need specialized support
In bare metal servers, technical experts manage the operations of the physical servers. Users cannot manage the bare metal themselves.
Less Flexibility
Updates in hardware and resources are carried out manually in the bare metal servers, so, it is less flexible.
Advantages of Cloud Servers over Bare Metal Server
Scalability & flexibility
Cloud Servers are very flexible, and the resources of cloud servers can be updated as well as downgraded any number of times.
Quick setup
All the server resources are set quickly compared to bare metal / physical servers.
Easy to update
Updating the cloud resources, security patches, as well as software and applications, is easy and it is automated.
Easy disaster recovery
In cloud servers, replicating datas and applications is made easy in case of an outage without any data loss. This ensures business continuity and reduces server downtime.
Snapshots
Taking Snapshots is easy and is often used for disaster recovery, testing new configurations, or reverting to a known good state of the server.
Cloud server is a better choice for dynamic workloads and rapid resource provisioning. It offers higher scalability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ease of deployment than a bare metal server.
Applications of Cloud Servers
Cloud servers have a wide range of applications like Cloud storage, Data backup and recovery, archiving, software testing, development environment, Iaas, Paas, Data processing and analytics, email and collaboration tools, ecommerce, online business, streaming services, social networking, serverless computing, cloud databases, cloud antivirus applications.
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