Where to read in detail about the types of hosting services?

Question

Network administration

If you google - there are a lot of purely review articles, where the world is told about the advantages / disadvantages of different types of site placement, but in general I have not seen detailed guides in the top search results, so I ask you to point to some detailed professional, and not review sources on this topic.
At a minimum, I would like to know the answers to the following questions in these materials:
1. What types of hosting services exist (especially taking into account new cloud technologies such as windows azure, amazon aws or digital ocean)? Detailed comparison.
2. Is there a methodology for assessing which type of hosting service is right for a given project?Let's say it's one thing when it comes to a simple PHP / MySQL site with 1000 visitors per day, another thing when there is ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server or Ruby on rails with mongodb with 20,000 visitors per day, etc.
3. What to do in order not to cost a pretty penny if the attendance of the resource has increased dramatically? So that the site, for example, could withstand, figuratively speaking, the habra effect and after that I did not become bankrupt.
4. What pitfalls and pitfalls can occur with hosting and types of hosting services and how to avoid them?
Ideally, everything should be in one book devoted only to this topic. Even if in English from some well-known publishers such as O'Reilly or Apress.

Answer 1

1. No detailed specifications exist. There, half of the terms were invented only 2 years ago. Each has its own development, something similar than something not. Triangles and apples. Azure has 20 cores, VM costs 200k per month, DO costs 17k. Well, it's not just about the cores ...
2. There are no manuals. There is a fear of falling. Let's say we're talking about a PHP/MySQL site with 1,000 visitors a day, which site? Helovordny? Or Bitrix Joomla calls and corrects shit code?
20,000 per day can work on PHP / MySQL on a shared tariff easily. Or they may not work at all. Why? What do you think?) Because neither the YaP nor the database have nothing to do with it at all. Put a comma in the wrong place, killed the server.
3. Clarify the terms of the service, from hosters + take unlimited tariffs.
4. Same as asking, hey! )) Guys! Where can I be deceived? It's always different every time, so don't worry.