What is Cloud Web Hosting?
What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Nonetheless, just a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.
1. Furnishing a remote file storage solution, which involves one single disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any specific web hosting distributor into a genuine cloud web hosting firm.
The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of hosting firms can actually make it.
2. It Involves Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving countless domains, web portals, mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than offering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire cluster of email servers, depending on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider:
dns1.safilink.com
dns2.safilink.com
If such a DNS is provided by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS simply demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined just to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite 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 merely one simple constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps several new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface unexpectedly.
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