Explanation of Cloud Hosting
What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. Yet, only a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one data storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting company into a genuine cloud hosting vendor.
The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very meager number of hosting service providers can truly achieve it.
2. It Entails Domain Names, Mails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web portals, electronic mail addresses, etc., are we not?
To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the email associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole bunch of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting distributor will support numerous server farm locations on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting packages provider:
dns1.a1host.xyz
dns2.a1host.xyz
If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just shows that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge out of nowhere.
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