What Does Cloud Website Hosting Mean?
What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. In spite of that, just a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which involves one data storage appliance for all users, does not turn any specific provider into an actual cloud website hosting packages provider.
The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few web hosting companies can actually make it.
2. It Entails Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, web portals, e-mails, and so on, aren't we?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing solely remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the mail associated services. Executing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be just one or probably 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 performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting services provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting packages provider:
dns1.holytrinityhosting.com
dns2.holytrinityhosting.com
If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a DNS like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as multiple web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we presently are not aware of will appear unexpectedly.
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