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Build Better Website: The Reverse Engineer Method Revealed Hosting & WordPress Tips: Uncovering the Fundamental Shared vs VPS vs Cloud Hosting

Traditional vs Cloud Hosting

Over the years, I have experimented with a lot of web hosting providers, whether it’d be local or international companies. There are a few types of web hosting services out there. And without going too deep about it, this lesson will highlight only the important aspects to which you have to pay attention.

When you sign up for shared hosting, the hosting company will put your website on a server along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other websites. This means each customer has to share space and resources on the server with every other customer, including CPU time, memory, and disk space.

Think of shared hosting like living in an apartment building. All of the residents share the same building, but share things like elevators and stairwells, car parking, and garbage collection.
VPS is similar to shared hosting in that your website shares a server with other sites, but there are fewer sites sharing space and resources and the server is partitioned out into different virtualized server environments. Unlike shared hosting, VPS usually provides baseline resources that you’re guaranteed, as well as additional resources available at a moment’s notice should your site experience a traffic spike.

Think of VPS like living in a condo. While you still share the same building as other residents, you are responsible for the maintenance of your property and any repairs that need to be carried out inside your condo. Plus, there are fewer residents and you get your own allocated car parking space.
Think of dedicated hosting like owning your own house. You are the only resident (other than your family, if you have one in this scenario!). You can park your car in your own driveway and paint your house whatever color you like. But you are ultimately responsible for maintaining your property and it’s up to you to install a security alarm to scare off burglars.

For simplicity reasons, I am grouping together shared, VPS, and dedicated servers as traditional hosting. 

Think of cloud hosting as renting a room using Airbnb. You share the house with the owner and other guests – if there are any other guests at all– and when you’re ready to move on or there is a power outage, you can always stay at another home listed on Airbnb.

Which one should you choose?

Taking into account two key things; performance & affordability, my choice of hosting comes down to either cloud or VPS. In this article, we will be comparing cloud hosting and VPS hosting to find out which one is better.

Cloud vs VPS

1. Scalability

Imagine one day, you require more bandwidth and performance capacity to handle the increasing traffic, you can easily upgrade or upscale the current resources to meet your needs. Scaling vertically increases the size of your server so you can handle whatever growth comes your way. Provision and augment RAM, bandwidth, and computing resources. These metrics actually are a huge contributor to your website loading speed.The biggest knock about Virtual Private Servers is that they don’t scale well. Conversely, a cloud’s infrastructure allows for scaling up or down depending on demand and with no reboot required.

2. High Availability / Uptime

For the utmost in availability, cloud is the winner due to its failover protection. The main reason behind this is that in cloud hosting, there are many servers that are connected to each other. If one server fails, the other server will take over the work seamlessly. This means that even if one server fails, your website or application will not be down for long periods of time. In VPS (Virtual Private Server), there is only one physical server and if it breaks down, then your website or application will be down for long periods of time until you get it repaired.

3. Pricing

Cloud hosting is often cheaper than other types of hosting because you only pay for the resources used by your website. This means that if your website does not use much bandwidth or disk space then you do not have to pay for those resources either.
There are 2 kinds of Cloud & VPS hosting available. 1. Managed2. Unmanaged.

What is the difference between managed vs unmanaged hosting?

Managed hosting means that your host will manage your website for you. They’ll make sure it’s up and running when you need it to be, they’ll monitor its performance and they’ll handle any problems that arise.Unmanaged hosting, on the other hand, means that you’re responsible for all aspects of running your site yourself. You’ll have to deal with updates, security problems, and any other issues that come up.

Managed hosting

Please refer to the image below for the pricing table offered by cloudways. In this case, cloudways will manage all your needs from backup, performance, support, security, etc. They will however use the existing an outsourced infrastructure to host your website, which in this case is DigitalOcean.
Pay attention to the specs above, 2GB RAM, 1 Core processor, 50GB Storage & 2TB bandwidth.

Unmanaged hosting

I’m currently subscribed to an unmanaged hosting package which I purchased directly from DigitalOcean, without any external intermediary (like Cloudways or WPEngine). As you can expect, managed hosting will cost more than unmanaged hosting. I only have to pay $12 per month for the exact resource specification. This can be more cost-effective but also means you’ll have to handle all the technical details yourself.It has quite a steep learning curve, so I used to hire a freelancer to set this up for me. 
Despite the cheaper price, it is better to use cloud-managed hosting for a hassle-free experience. With managed cloud hosting, you don’t need to worry about technical issues and updates because all of this will be done by the professional team working on your website.You can also get access to 24/7 support so that you can always ask any questions or concerns whenever you want. In addition to that, there are no hidden fees or surprises with this type of hosting. The price that you see is the price that you pay!

My Obvious Verdict 🙂

Let’s not sugarcoat it, you have known my choice from the beginning. After taking into account some considerations above and how much most of us spent on coffee every month…
Cloud hosting is the best and most affordable choice to meet most of your needs. Many advantages to using cloud hosting over a traditional server (in this case, VPS).

Cloud

Cloud hosting offers users with a wide variety of benefits. Some of the key advantages include✅ Lower cost✅ Faster performance✅ High scalability✅ Security
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Do I have to purchase 10Web hosting to implement the Reverse Engineer Method 1.0 ?

Not necessarily. Although the Reverse Engineer method requires you to use the AI Builder by 10Web, You can take advantage of the free trial that 10Web offers for 7 days. In our experience, the AI recreation process should not take more than 3 days. Then, you can easily transfer your design to your website hosted on a different hosting provider by referring to the ‘Transfer your Design’ topic found under Module 3. If you wish to use AI Builder for more than 7 days, you can definitely subscribe to their monthly plan.

Right now, you won’t see a place to put a coupon when you move from the free trial to the pro plan. But, don’t worry! Just reach out to the support team and they’ll help you use your coupon.

Kindly head over to our ‘Contact Us’ page and share with us what’s bothering you. We’re here to help.

The purpose of the reconstruction step is to fix any inaccuracies the AI builder might leave when recreating sections. I’ve noticed that, for other sales pages, the AI builder tends to have a hard time recreating the page. Hence, we use the reconstruction step. We add a new section below the one AI worked on, and then move the widgets into this new section. This way, it offers us a point of reference to match the intended design that we wanted even if the AI builder misses something.

I get it, it can be tricky, especially for beginners. That’s why I recommend trying out the grid layout or CSSGrid. Most of the time, design needs are box-shaped or grid-like. It makes things much easier! So, save the flexbox container for those occasional layouts that you just can’t create with a boxy design. 

When the AI builder recreates a page, it often places containers inside other containers – a process we call “nesting.” This can make finding which container holds your background image quite a challenge. But don’t worry, that’s exactly why we do the reconstruction; to create a much simpler layout. You can use the navigator to check how many containers have been created. This will make finding your background image a whole lot easier.

Sure thing! A base template is designed to help people from non-designer’s background establish their overall style, especially when they’re not experienced designers. Think of it as a starter kit for your website design. A base template usually includes around 60% of your site’s overall look. You can then pick up design elements such as color schemes or typography styles from the base template to get your own design started.

This is just a suggestion. It’s totally fine to use any tool you like for pre-planning your website. However, this planning process really helps you visualize your site, especially when merging different websites together. Trust me, it can get quite messy without some planning!

The AI builder is still relatively new and has its limitations. But here are few things that we can do:

  • Try again. Recreate the page once again.
  • Make certain you are recreating a page design which follows all the key criteria.
  • Try recreating a shorter landing page next time.
  • If it still doesn’t work. Don’t sweat it and reach out to the support team. They can give clarification to you.
 

Additionally, there’s no need to stress about it, as we’re going to reconstruct the sections during the next step.

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  4. Which is the difference between the 2 services that they provide, one is PAGE SPEED BOOSTER and the other one is PLATFORM, how to know which we should pick.

    1. Hi Raul, good question. Page Speed Booster is for those who host their WordPress website with another hosting provider, while the platform itself includes hosting and Page Speed Booster as part of a single package in their offerings.If you wanted to use the AI builder, you should opt for the platform package 🙂

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