How Cloud Website Hosting Functions
What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Yet, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.
1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one file storage device for all customers, does not transform any given web hosting corporation into a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing 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 call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of web hosting firms can really make it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web sites, e-mail aliases, and so on, are we not?
To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing only remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted only to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or probably an entire bundle of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting firm will support numerous datacenter facility sites on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting corporation:
dns1.4610hosting.com
dns2.4610hosting.com
If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server 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 merely displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited just to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they merely distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance several new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge out of the blue.
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