Cloud Web Hosting Uncovered
What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting lingo. In spite of that, just a few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all clients, does not transform any particular hosting service provider into an actual cloud web hosting accounts provider.
The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of web hosting firms can actually make it.
2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, websites, email box accounts, etc., right?
To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering only remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Performing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one single or maybe an entire pack of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting provider will support multiple data center facility sites on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a DNS of a true cloud web hosting solutions provider:
dns1.www.libertywebhost.net
dns2.www.libertywebhost.net
If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice 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 DNS simply exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as many hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a couple of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of nowhere.
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