Cloud Web Hosting Unmasked
What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Still, just a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale concise, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.
1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any specific provider into a genuine cloud web hosting packages provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very meager number of web hosting firms can truly do it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, websites, mail aliases, etc., right?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than providing merely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail related services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire group of email servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting distributor will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting accounts provider:
dns1.mylatinhosting.com
dns2.mylatinhosting.com
If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly a few brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will surface out of nowhere.
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