What Precisely is Cloud Hosting?
What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, just a few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.
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1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.
1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting supplier into an authentic cloud web hosting solutions provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of web hosting service providers can truly attain it.
2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web pages, e-mail box accounts, and so on, are we not?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps a whole bunch of email servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting solutions provider will support multiple server farm sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud web hosting provider:
dns1.valeno.host
dns2.valeno.host
If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you notice a DNS like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a couple of new clouds we currently are not familiar with will spring up unexpectedly.