Cloud Web Hosting Explained
What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting lingo. Yet, only a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage device for all clients, does not turn any given provider into an authentic cloud web hosting corporation.
The cPanel hosting vendors dub the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting providers can truly achieve it.
2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domain names, online portals, mailboxes, etc., are we not?
To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing only remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one or probably a whole stack of e-mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting plans provider will support numerous datacenter facility locations on different continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting provider:
dns1.bruhin.solutions
dns2.bruhin.solutions
If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server only displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly several new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up unexpectedly.
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