How Does Cloud Web Hosting Function?
What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Even so, only a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.
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1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting corporation into a real cloud web hosting services provider.
The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of hosting firms can truly do it.
2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, online portals, email addresses, and so on, aren't we?
To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering only remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the email linked services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one or maybe an entire array of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting firm will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting packages provider:
dns1.bruhin.solutions
dns2.bruhin.solutions
If such a Domain Name Server 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 confident when you observe a DNS like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS simply reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined only to a remote data storage service, as plenty of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply furnish file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up out of nowhere.