Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. In spite of that, only a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any given hosting supplier into an actual cloud website hosting services provider.
The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of web hosting firms can really do it.
2. It Involves Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, websites, emails, and so on, are we not?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than providing plainly remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or perchance an entire stack of email servers, based on the total load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider will support numerous data center sites on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting corporation:
dns1.comtechpal.com
dns2.comtechpal.com
If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined simply to a remote file storage service, as a lot of hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple fragment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a number of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge unexpectedly.
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