Cloud or CDN Hosting – Which One is Better?

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Cloud or CDN Hosting Which One is Better?
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Introduction

• At present, most organizations are striving for
  better operational efficiency through upgraded
  speed and connectivity between the end-users and
  the services.
• The problem is how we fill this gap between the
  user and the service, or how we can supply most
  of the services within a lesser time setting.
• For example, when we talk about eCommerce
  businesses, a website is the only medium that
  they have to communicate with their clients.

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• Cloud hosting is all about developing proficiency
  through shared resources, which are accessible
  anytime anywhere, with simple internet access.
  Also, it has a lesser effect on IT finances
  because of its pay as you go model.
• CDN Hosting is a very important thing to remember
  when we talk about website efficiency.
• CDN is otherwise known as Content Delivery
  Network, works on the model of delivering content
  such as graphics, texts, scripts, and other
  downloadable objects to the end-users through
  multiple data centers.
• Your website will be visible to your end visitor
  in the fastest way possible because it serves
  based upon the nearness of the node with the
  end-user.

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Cloud Hosting VS CDN Hosting

• To find out which is the better one for you, you
  need to study the issues that both of them solve.
  
• With this analysis, you can able to understand
  which one is better for you.
• Lets start with the most important issue or
  parameter that they can solve.

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LATENCY

• Most of the visitors feel frustrating during a
  site visit because of the time taken in loading
  the page.
• Customer satisfaction starts from the beginning
  where they request a site, till the time website
  finally gets displayed.
• CDN hosting plan is a specialist in this issue.
• CDN framework is stored static content on
  multiple DCs, and when a user requests a webpage,
  it distributes the content from the nearest
  possible node. As a result, it reduces latency.

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PERFORMANCE

• Cloud Hosting is not only for delivering the
  content but it also a scalable platform with an
  extensive choice of resources that can be used
  and shared as per demand.
• The user can either add or remove the resources
  according to his needs with each service powered
  by variable equipment.
• You can host your applications, infrastructure,
  and improve platforms through the various cloud
  models.

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• CDN Hosting, on the other hand, delivers static
  content across the internet to the users.
• It is largely useful for storage purposes.
• It stores a copy and image of the content from
  the original server and then transmits it
  according to the users request.
• The real performance comes through the server,
  and the job for CDN is to transmit the static
  content stored in it.

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COST

• CDN Hosting services provided a part of any
  hosting plan or main hosting service. Some
  hosting providers give free CDN hosting services.
  When you think about the cost, CDN Hosting
  services are less expensive than cloud Hosting.