Cloud Hosting Description
What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. Nevertheless, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one data storage device for all customers, does not turn any given service provider into an authentic cloud hosting services provider.
The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very meager number of hosting corporations can actually do it.
2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, websites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?
To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing only remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or perhaps a whole cluster of email servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' 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 hosting company will support numerous datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud hosting corporation:
dns1.websites.bitx.fyi
dns2.websites.bitx.fyi
If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely furnish file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a few brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will appear unexpectedly.
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