Cloud Website Hosting Uncovered
What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. However, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.
1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any given hosting company into an actual cloud website hosting packages provider.
The cPanel hosting providers dub the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting corporations can truly accomplish it.
2. It Entails Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, websites, mailbox accounts, etc., right?
To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying merely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the electronic mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or perchance a whole array of e-mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting services provider:
dns1.3rdworldhosting.com
dns2.3rdworldhosting.com
If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just displays that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited only to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply provide file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will come up out of the blue.
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