What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?
What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, only a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one file storage device for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting firm into a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider.
The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of web hosting companies can actually accomplish it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domains, web portals, e-mails, etc., aren't we?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than providing solely remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one single or maybe an entire array of electronic mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting packages provider will support numerous server farm locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting distributor:
dns1.mbajacx.com
dns2.mbajacx.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a DNS such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS just reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited only to a remote data storage service, as a lot of web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly furnish file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we presently don't know about will surface out of the blue.
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