Over the past decade, cloud hosting has overtaken the traditional web hosting model in popularity. Today, anyone from developers to internet hobbyists can create multiple instances in just a few clicks.
With cloud hosting so readily available, many new web hosts have entered the market looking to capitalize on it.
In this article, we'll explain what cloud hosting is, why it's used, and how Spin Servers can cut your cloud hosting costs without compromising performance.
What is cloud hosting?
The term "cloud hosting" can be confusing, because it can mean different things depending on how it's deployed or used. Simply put, cloud hosting is when you combine the resources of multiple servers so they act as one.
Let's say you own a travel booking business where customers book their trips through your website. If your website goes down for any reason, your business is dead in the water until the issue is resolved. With cloud hosting, your website runs across multiple servers, similar to a Kubernetes cluster. If one server goes down, your website stays online while the other servers handle the load until the failed node is back online.
This matters because your website is "mission critical": if it goes down, your whole business goes down with it.
The cost of cloud hosting
Finding a home for your data means finding a provider that is reliable, consistent, and there for you when things go sideways. Spin Servers offers its own VPC Manager (virtual private cloud manager).
Our VPC Manager lets you create your own clouds directly from the client area. You can move the servers you lease from us between VPCs, IP addresses included, so you can build your own cloud infrastructure in just a few clicks.
This works with any of our dedicated servers in both of our data center locations: Dallas, TX and Silicon Valley (San Jose), CA.
How is Spin Servers cheaper?
The biggest difference between us and providers like AWS and Azure is that every one of our bare-metal servers comes with a 10Gbps network as standard, with unmetered options up to 40Gbps.
For comparison, at the time of writing, the AWS Pricing Calculator priced a basic single on-demand instance with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB of RAM, a 5Gbps port and 2 TB of bandwidth at $222.28 per month.
Since all of our dedicated servers work with our VPC Manager, you can consolidate your server costs by leasing dedicated hardware for a fraction of the monthly cost of instance providers like AWS.
For example, we offer an Intel Xeon E5-1280 v5 (4 cores at 3.7 GHz) with 32 GB of RAM, 2 × 10Gbps ports and 30 TB of bandwidth for $99 per month.
With two of these servers in a VPC in the Spin Servers client area, you pay less than that single AWS instance and get dedicated physical resources with a much higher bandwidth allowance.
If you're interested in the E5-1280 v5, you can get it for $89 per month with promo code 10$OFF. The discount applies for the life of the server and works in both of our data centers.
If you have questions about any of our services, please contact us via email at [email protected] or by using our live chat at spinservers.com.
Spin Servers is a US-based provider of dedicated servers & affordable private cloud solutions. Our motto is to let you "spin up servers" fast, seamlessly, and affordably.
