# Web Hosting

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [October 15, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570 "2019-10-15T11:35:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rainjoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rainjoy](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Rainjoy)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570/1 "2019-10-15T11:35:51Z")

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What is the difference between web hosting and cloud hosting, if there is any ?  
Even minutest and subtlest difference would be admired.  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Tommertom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Tommertom](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Tommertom)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570/2 "2019-10-15T13:53:29Z")

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Cloud is a commercial term to cater for a.o. webhosting.

Google Firebase is a nice way to get familiar with it, combined with Angular. Because the JDK is nice and there is a very generous free tier.

But AWS, Azure are considered even more advanced

In the end of the ride, you need to have a way to publish an app. Using cloud to do (web)hosting is the go-to way for most solutions.

Especially as it will provide you with many other nice things you will need at the end of the ride (in case you want to do some serious app development and deployment)

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**Author:** ![rapropos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/rapropos/32/100227_2.png) [@rapropos](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/rapropos)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570/3 "2019-10-15T18:22:44Z")

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I would add one more minute and subtle difference: at least to my mind, web hosting could consist of only a single instance of a server, whereas cloud hosting carries with it the notion that the server or servers are or can be replicated seamlessly across many different virtual and physical machines.

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**Author:** ![Tommertom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Tommertom](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Tommertom)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570/4 "2019-10-15T18:45:56Z")

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I wonder if the op should care beyond many more little secret differences

But who knows…

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**Author:** ![milazackson585](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@milazackson585](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/milazackson585)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/web-hosting/175570/5 "2022-05-19T07:09:21Z")

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The both hosting has their own facilities and benefits. It depends up on you what kind of hosting you want for your website. Here are some major differences:

Web hosting refers to a service linked to internet hosting. Many servers are used to host in the cloud storage.

In Web Hosting, it is a fixed server or a single server. In cloud hosting, many servers are working on the same platform.

The Scalability of Web hosting is less than cloud hosting. The Scalability of Cloud Hosting is easy.

In web hosting, the reliability is very less. In Cloud Hosting, the reliability, we can switch easily if one server gets low.