VPS and the CLOUD

The cloud and the VPS (Virtual Private Server) service are the latest storms in the best vps hosting market which have revolutionized our way of thinking about hosting spaces. Though it may seem that they are totally unrelated concepts, they are actually related by the concept of virtualization. Their impact on the web hosting industry has been phenomenal. Though the fact that Cloud is the latest offspring of the virtualization concept seems like it might obliterate VPS totally the chances of that happening are very dim as they cater to two very different categories of customer with different requirements.
The cheap vps hosting involves virtually partitioning a server into multiple servers so that a single resource might be split to multiple users allowing them to control the devices separately even though they are using the same physical server entity. This results in lowering of cost and optimized utilization of the server resources. The windows vps hosting is used by customers who wish to have a small server of their own wherein they can control all the hosting parameters such as bandwidth, RAM, controlling the access levels of various users and deciding on the OS etc.
Where as the Cloud concept involves integrating multiple server clusters together virtually to form a single virtual storage entity known as the cloud. The advantages of hosting in a cloud are that the domain owner can access his contents from anywhere and multiple users can work on a single project at the same time without any interference. Thus they cater to very different markets. Nowadays even combinations of VPs and cloud services are offered on demand.