How big are the differences there?
Only the sharedness or dedicatedness of the resources are the difference?
Discussion
with a dedicated server you get the full resources of ram and cpu, on cloud those are shared with others… but I’m since 2011 hetzner customer and never had a performance issue.
with a cloud server you are much more flexible and most time it’s easier to setup.
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Is it easy to switch between them and move your app from cloud to a dedicated server?
How I see it at this point is:
1️⃣ Cloud could be cheaper starting point if my app is not used all the time.
2️⃣ If more resources are needed I can switch to a dedicated server.
3️⃣ If I use a docker container, it is easy to set it up in any environment, because I only need a dockerfile and a folder with necessary files.
if you use the same os and cpu architecture then it should be easy to move to a new environment.
not sure what you plan to host, i think a dedicated server is used if you plan to use app’s that need lot of cpu or ram. I have 4 cloud server right now and this is still cheaper then a dedicated server. and to spin up a new cloud server is much faster, also you don’t have to care of hardware failure.