I’m looking to move my website to a new host, but there is concern that my favorite option only offers dedicated hosting versus cloud. I’m not an engineer, but I would like to understand if dedicated hosting is antiquated technology that nobody should be looking at or if it’s still a viable option for at least the next five years.
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There is nothing wrong with dedicated hosting, it’s just more expensive and doesn’t scale as easily with sudden changes in traffic.
The question is if you want to have your data (and that of your customers) in the cloud, i.e. stored in some datacenter somewhere in a specific country and possibly replicated all over the world. If you are a U.S. citizen, you probably don’t care either way, but as a European company this is really bad, as cloud providers are almost exclusively U.S. based and thus storing your data there makes it subject to the Patriot Act legislation. And that is a very big problem with regards to European data protection regulations.
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