Week 7

K2.7 The advantages and limitations of self-hosted and cloud-hosted virtual servers:

• self-hosted server (virtual server on a physical host):

o advantages:

â–ª lower expertise required to set up

â–ª greater control of costs

â–ª scaling can be applied

â–ª high availability (HA)/clustering

o limitations:

â–ª high upfront cost

â–ª high cost for resilience

• cloud-hosted virtual server (for example Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services):

o advantages:

â–ª scaling can be applied easily

â–ª built in redundancy

â–ª third-party support provided

o limitations:

â–ª high subscription cost

â–ª complex initial set-up

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2024-07-11 09:18:33