In this article we can see the major difference between SharePoint on premise and SharePoint Online
How to create a modern team site collection in SharePoint online
Create communication site in SharePoint online
OnPrem |
Online |
SharePoint farm’s will be hosted, managed/maintained
by your company. It will be more cost to manage. |
SharePoint farms are hosted, managed/maintained by Microsoft,
it is a cloud-based solution, we can reduce the cost. |
Company IT staff will be responsible for patching, updates,
related to SharePoint, windows updates. |
Microsoft will take care of installing patching and updates |
Our Origination team needs to make sure sites are up
and running always. |
Microsoft has committed to 99.9% |
SharePoint sites can be accessible only within the organization
network, or based on own configuration we can access outside as well. |
SharePoint online sites can able accessible from in
and outside of Origination, any device. |
More
number of team members required to manage SharePoint, having dependency on
other teams, Network, AD, IIS, Security, Database, windows teams. |
Microsoft will take care, if there is any planned
activity MS will announce we can see in the Service health page. |
Your company need to buy license for each server, either
standard or enterprise, and for office applications. |
Microsoft will provide license based on our usage/requirement
in Office 365 enterprise or business license. |
SharePoint Onprem will support server-side coding,
client side. |
SharePoint online supports Client side, SPFX |