Not really cost-effective for traditional shared hosting. Cloud platforms like AWS or GCP charge more for compute, storage, and especially egress bandwidth than a dedicated server with unmetered traffic. The real upside is resilience and scalability - automatic failover, easy provisioning, geo-redundancy . Most budget hosts stick to bare metal. Some "cloud shared" offers are just rebranded VPS anyway. If you're running volume-based shared hosting, dedicated hardware usually wins on price and simplicity.
