What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?
What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Still, only a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote file storage service, which comprises one file storage tool for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting firm into a real cloud web hosting vendor.
The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to offer remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very scanty number of hosting companies can really make it.
2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, email mailbox accounts, etc., right?
To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering just remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or perchance an entire stack of mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' 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 authentic cloud web hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting accounts provider:
dns1.thewebhostonline.com
dns2.thewebhostonline.com
If such a DNS is provided by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote file storage service, as numerous service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will appear unexpectedly.
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