What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Still, only a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all users, does not convert any specific hosting firm into a real cloud website hosting accounts provider.
The cPanel hosting distributors dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of hosting corporations can really do it.
Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving many domain names, web portals, e-mail boxes, and so on, right?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one or perchance an entire set of email servers, determined by the overall load created. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting vendor will support numerous data center locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider:
dns1.www.continental.net
dns2.www.continental.net
If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote file storage service, as lots of hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will surface out of the blue.
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