Cloud Website Hosting Explanation
What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting parlance. However, just a few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story concise, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all users, does not turn any specific provider into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.
The cPanel hosting companies name the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. Very few hosting companies can actually attain it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domains, online portals, electronic mail accounts, etc., right?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Executing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be just one or maybe an entire assortment of e-mail servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting packages provider will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting distributor:
dns1.bestservicecloud.eu
dns2.bestservicecloud.eu
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a DNS such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined just to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems 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 only one simple fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a few new clouds we presently are not informed about will surface out of nowhere.
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