Server, VPS server, cloud server is always unclear which one is better
What is a server? What is VPS? What is a “VPS server”? What is a “cloud server”? Because of the different names, there will be many different question formulations. Correct one mistake first: the word “VPS server”
Including VPS and server, VPS itself means Virtual Private Server (Virtual Private Server), and then adding a server after VPS, that is superfluous but rather nondescript, even you don’t know what it is. Correct understanding: Just remove the server behind the “VPS server”.
Let me explain it to you below. After reading it, you should understand your own needs and positioning.
Server: is a general term that refers to equipment and systems (such as computers) that provide computing or other application services to customers.
VPS: On the physical server, through virtual technology, divided, virtual, independent “servers”
Cloud servers: Many “servers” are organized and coordinated to provide services through certain technical means.
Cloud hosting: It can be shared hosting or cloud servers, the former is created on the basis of the latter.
VPS cloud (cloud VPS): It’s just a different name, but it actually means cloud servers, cloud servers.
What we need to pay attention to is:
Server, generally understood as a standalone server
VPS is generally developed by relying on a (physical) independent server. Each VPS is independent of each other, and each VPS shares the resources of this independent server. It is difficult to achieve exclusive resource sharing in a strict sense. If it is exclusive, it will be called another name, it is VDS, not VPS.
Cloud server: It is almost the same as VPS in the process of personal use, but its resource provision is distributed on N servers, which can be expanded at any time, which can make up for the lack of resources of a single machine, and the host of VPS The machine is a single machine, which is the biggest flaw of VPS. In turn, one of the biggest advantages of cloud servers is fully reflected.
What VPS and cloud servers have in common: both must rely on (independent) servers, and each user is also independent of data privacy and so on. Differences: One relies on a single resource, and if its host, that is, an independent server, has hardware resource damage, it will be a disaster; one relies on multiple resources or cluster resources, and has a perfect distributed approach. The failure of a single physical machine does not affect normal operation.
