ITunes vs iCloud restore formiphone 4s

I have iphone4s where I added custom ringtone and ican't remove it now... Anyways after hours of reading the solution is to restore my iPhone.
Can you please tell me what is the difference between restoring from iTunes or iCloud?
Thank you.

The difference between the 2 is just that.  The information needed to restore either comes from iTunes or from iCloud. 
This article should help you out.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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