What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?
What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one file storage tool for all users, does not turn any particular web hosting corporation into an actual cloud web hosting company.
The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very meager number of service providers can actually achieve it.
2. It Involves Domains, Emails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, sites, email accounts, etc., right?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the email associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these given tasks. There might be just one or perchance an entire cluster of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting supplier will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting distributor:
dns1.hostmyshop.com
dns2.hostmyshop.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server handles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined solely to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a few new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.
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