Cloud Hosting Unveiled
What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Still, only a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story short, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.
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1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Offering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one file storage tool for all customers, does not turn any given web hosting company into an actual cloud web hosting services provider.
The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few web hosting companies can actually accomplish it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, online portals, e-mail box accounts, etc., aren't we?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying merely remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the e-mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or possibly a whole bundle of mail servers, depending on the overall server load created. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud web hosting firm:
dns1.kawaldomain.com
dns2.kawaldomain.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server only exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote file storage service, as plenty of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe several brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will surface out of the blue.