What Does Cloud Website Hosting Stand for?
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Still, only a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting company into a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider.
The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to supply remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of service providers can really achieve it.
2. It Includes Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web sites, mailbox aliases, and so on, right?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering just remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted only to the mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole pack of e-mail servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting packages provider will support numerous data center locations on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting vendor:
dns1.hospedary.com
dns2.hospedary.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a DNS like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), website files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited only to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a number of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will appear out of the blue.
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