Cloud Hosting

Vultr and DigitalOcean are cloud platforms that offer various cloud services, among which the most popular are their virtual private servers or VPSs. These cost-effective and very efficient hosting solutions take less space and are easily scalable without compromising on CPU power, memory, and storage. In this article, I’ll be comparing Vultr and DigitalOcean to […]

Linode and Vultr are cloud platforms that offer various services, among which are their virtual private servers (or VPSs). These virtual servers have proven to be very efficient and more budget-friendly solutions than regular servers – not to mention they can be deployed and decommissioned almost immediately. They show how reliable they are time and […]

Virtual private servers (VPSs) are cost-effective solutions for developers and businesses alike that offer superb performances, security, backups, and overall reliability. The fact that they provide hourly pricing and that regular people can also afford to use the services of big companies, also adds to their popularity. That being said, in this article I’ll be […]

Linode is a cloud-hosting company that offers virtual private servers in a number of data centers worldwide at affordable prices, billed by the hour. Linode also refers to specific types of servers as “Linode XX GB”, eg Linode 16 GB, based on how much RAM they provide. This is similar to how DigitalOcean refers to […]

A Droplet is what DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting provider, calls its Linux-based virtual private servers (VPSs), that run on virtualized hardware. It’s a neat, low-cost service based on cloud computing with which one can create a virtual server environment on company servers. The Droplets can be customized through the DigitalOcean control panel and can be […]

Before looking at the key differences between cloud vs VPS hosting, it is important to understand the fundamental commonality between the two that sometimes cause confusion. Both cloud and VPS hosting have shared resources (i.e., hardware, operating system, applications, etc.) that use advanced technology to keep users ‘virtually’ separated from one another. However, that is […]

AWS or Amazon Web Services is a cloud platform that was developed by e-commerce giant Amazon. AWS offers a lot more cloud computing services than other cloud hosting platforms, including the ones listed here as alternatives (Vultr, Linode, UpCloud and DigitalOcean). Besides cloud hosting, it also offers gaming, VR and IoT technologies, machine learning applications, […]

Linode is a cloud hosting company that is particularly well-liked by developers . It has great cloud infrastructure with Linux virtual machines and bare metal machines, IaaS offerings like managed databases and object storage. It’s also pretty affordable, making it very attractive for entrepreneurs that are just starting out or ones that want to grow […]

Vultr is a cloud hosting platform that offers cutting-edge, high-performing SSD cloud servers. They launched in 2014, and are the newest entrant of any of the competitors that we will discuss in this article. Now, Vultr is a pretty good cloud infrastucture provider, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try other hosting platforms – to […]