How Cloud Hosting Works
What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Even so, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single disk storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific hosting supplier into a real cloud hosting plans provider.
The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. Very few web hosting distributors can truly achieve it.
2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web pages, e-mail addresses, and so on, are we not?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than offering merely remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the electronic mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps a whole group of e-mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting corporation will support multiple datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting services provider:
dns1.cedegarhost.net
dns2.cedegarhost.net
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS merely reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted just to a remote disk storage solution, as multiple hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems 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 simply one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.
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