Cloud Website Hosting Revealed
What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting phraseology. In spite of that, only a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not turn any given hosting provider into a real cloud website hosting accounts provider.
The cPanel hosting providers call the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of web hosting firms can truly accomplish it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, web portals, e-mail boxes, etc., right?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering only remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or possibly an entire group of mail servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple server farm facility sites on different continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting vendor:
dns1.wantok.click
dns2.wantok.click
If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just manifests that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited simply to a remote data storage service, as a lot of hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly provide file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a number of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will appear out of nowhere.
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