Cloud Hosting Disclosed
What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting lingo. However, just a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage tool for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting corporation into a real cloud hosting company.
The cPanel hosting providers dub the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very meager number of web hosting corporations can actually make it.
2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, websites, email addresses, etc., are we not?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering only remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the e-mail associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or possibly an entire group of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting solutions provider 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.getmybest.host
dns2.getmybest.host
If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server only shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote data storage service, as numerous service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will appear out of the blue.
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