What Does Cloud Website Hosting Represent?
What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Still, only a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story short, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which involves one data storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any given hosting vendor into an actual cloud website hosting supplier.
The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very meager number of web hosting firms can really make it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domain names, sites, email boxes, etc., aren't we?
To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the email related services. Performing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire assortment of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting provider:
dns1.8plus1.org
dns2.8plus1.org
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.
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