What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?
What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. In spite of that, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.
1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any given hosting firm into an actual cloud website hosting supplier.
The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very small number of web hosting vendors can really accomplish it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web pages, e-mailbox accounts, and so on, are we not?
To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one or perchance a whole bundle of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting packages provider:
dns1.buyselldomain.name
dns2.buyselldomain.name
If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you discern a DNS such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS just manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they plainly deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.
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