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Cloud Web Hosting Explanation
What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Yet, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.
1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all users, does not turn any specific web hosting distributor into an actual cloud website hosting plans provider.
The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of hosting suppliers can really achieve it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domain names, online portals, email aliases, and so on, right?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) must be devoted solely to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one or perchance an entire collection of email servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier:
dns1.vistawebhost.com
dns2.vistawebhost.com
If such a DNS is provided by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they simply deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface unexpectedly.