{"id":468465,"date":"2022-12-06T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=468465"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:58:42","slug":"cloud-hosting-vs-dedicated-server-hosting-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/468465-cloud-hosting-vs-dedicated-server-hosting-in-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Cloud hosting vs dedicated server hosting in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africans looking for hosting services they can use to develop and release an app, or for their online business, have a range of options from which to choose.<\/p>\n

These include cloud and dedicated server hosting services, and while the former is considered more versatile and robust, it can cost customers a lot to meet their requirements.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband compared the cheapest dedicated servers from a range of South African providers to cloud hosting services with similar CPU cores and RAM allocations.<\/p>\n

Dedicated server providers used for the comparison include Xneelo, Absolute Hosting, Afrihost, and 1-Grid, while the cloud hosting services came from Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle.<\/p>\n

We found that dedicated server options are generally cheaper than cloud hosting services with similar CPU cores, with the exception of Oracle’s Compute VM product.<\/p>\n

The main benefit cloud hosting promises over traditional services is the ability to scale rapidly, as demand dictates.<\/p>\n

However, this generally comes with a cost trade-off.<\/p>\n

The cloud virtual machines in this comparison also have significantly less storage than the dedicated servers.<\/p>\n

For example, the cheapest cloud hosting product compared (Oracle) has 16GB of RAM and 100GB of storage for R1,017 per month.<\/p>\n

The cheapest dedicated server option (Afrihost) features 8GB of RAM and 2TB of storage for R1,020 per month.<\/p>\n

While the Afrihost dedicated server option is fractionally more per month than Oracle, it provides the same amount of RAM and twenty times the storage.<\/p>\n

Google Cloud is the next cheapest cloud hosting option, featuring four vCPUs, 16GB RAM, and 100GB storage costing R1,852 a month.<\/p>\n

The second cheapest dedicated server package comes from Xneelo and includes a 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPU, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB of SSD storage for R1,195 a month.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Azure’s cloud hosting service with four vCPUs, 16GB of RAM, and 100GB of storage is the most expensive of the cloud-based options at R2,934 a month.<\/p>\n

The most expensive of the dedicated server products compared comes from 1-Grid. It features a 1.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPU, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of HDD storage for R1,649 a month.<\/p>\n

The specifications and pricing of several dedicated servers from South African providers and cloud hosting services from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are summarised in the table below.<\/p>\n

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Dedicated server pricing and specs<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Provider<\/strong><\/td>\nCPU<\/strong><\/td>\nRAM<\/strong><\/td>\nStorage<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice (monthly)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dedicated server hosting<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/strong><\/td>\n3.2GHz Quad-Core Xeon<\/td>\n8GB<\/td>\n2TB HDD<\/td>\nR1,020.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xneelo<\/strong><\/td>\n3.2GHz Quad-Core Xeon<\/td>\n16GB<\/td>\n2TB SSD<\/td>\nR1,195.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Absolute Hosting<\/strong><\/td>\n3.1GHz Quad-Core Xeon<\/td>\n16GB<\/td>\n512GB SSD<\/td>\nR1,201.75*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1-Grid<\/strong><\/td>\n1.8GHz Quad-Core Xeon<\/td>\n32GB<\/td>\n2TB HDD<\/td>\nR1,649.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloud hosting<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oracle<\/strong><\/td>\n4 vCPUs<\/td>\n16GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\nR1,017.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Cloud<\/strong><\/td>\n4 vCPUs<\/td>\n16GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\nR1,852.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon EC2<\/strong><\/td>\n4 vCPUs<\/td>\n8GB<\/td>\n30GB<\/td>\nR2,194.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft Azure<\/strong><\/td>\n4 vCPUs<\/td>\n16GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\nR2,934.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
*Absolute Hosting is currently running a promotion where customers get 40% off for the first month. For the dedicated server listed, customers will pay R721.05 for their first month.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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