What’s the difference between public cloud, virtual private cloud, private cloud, and dedicated servers?

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Here are some general ways to think about our different service offerins:

Public Cloud – Simple Servelets
Public cloud plans are full internet servers with unique kernels and unique IP addresses.

Virtual Private Cloud
These are most similar to hybrid cloud plans. They are cloud plans with customisable computing resources, allowing you to set how many VMs (cloud servers) to launch within your Virtual Private Cloud. They have additional internal networking capabilities, and allow for site-to-site VPN, load balancing and firewall.

Private Cloud
Private Cloud plans are full scalable server pools with multiple pre-installed virtualisation options. These allow you to host and maintain your own dedicated private cloud within the SimplerCloud network, controlling all access and configuration information. Private Cloud plans come with options for firewall, load balancing, managed switch and managed backup add-ons for enhanced redundancy, continuity and security.

Dedicated Servers
Dedicated servers are also referred to as bare metal servers and are fully customizable physical servers that can be used for any information software.

For more, please refer to the Differences between VPS and Dedicated Servers, Cloud Servers