Cloud Website Hosting Explanation
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting lingo. Still, only a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Only.
1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all clients, does not convert any given web hosting corporation into an actual cloud website hosting distributor.
The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, based on a single-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 operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very small number of web hosting corporations can actually accomplish it.
2. It Involves Domains, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, web portals, mails, and so on, right?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the e-mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or perchance an entire cluster of email servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous data center sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting distributor:
dns1.cloudnetcode.com
dns2.cloudnetcode.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a DNS like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS plainly illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as multiple web hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one tiny component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps several new clouds we presently are not aware of will surface out of nowhere.
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