Description of Cloud Website Hosting
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's IT, Internet and web hosting jargon. Still, just a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which involves one data storage device for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting company into a real cloud website hosting vendor.
The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting service providers can really make it.
2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, sites, mail accounts, etc., right?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated just to the electronic mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be just one single or possibly a whole cluster of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting services provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting solutions provider:
dns1.vistawebhost.com
dns2.vistawebhost.com
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a DNS like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server only reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote disk storage service, as lots of hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one small component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a few new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge unexpectedly.
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