Cloud Website Hosting Defined
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. However, only a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.
1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any particular web hosting company into a real cloud website hosting firm.
The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very meager number of web hosting corporations can truly make it.
2. It Includes Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving numerous domains, sites, electronic mail addresses, etc., aren't we?
To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering simply remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated only to the email linked services. Performing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one single or probably an entire bundle of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting firm will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting accounts provider:
dns1.webservex.com
dns2.webservex.com
If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you discern a DNS such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine handles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface unexpectedly.
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