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Cloud Website Hosting Description
What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. However, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long tale brief, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting services provider.
The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. Very few hosting suppliers can truly do it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving lots of domains, sites, e-mail boxes, and so on, are we not?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or maybe an entire collection of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have a genuine cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting packages provider will support numerous datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting company:
dns1.featurehosting.reseller-hosting-themes.com
dns2.featurehosting.reseller-hosting-themes.com
If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS simply shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote data storage service, as numerous web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they simply offer file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will come up out of nowhere.