What Indeed is Cloud Web Hosting?
What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Even so, just a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long tale succinct, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.
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1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Solely.
1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which comprises one single disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any specific web hosting corporation into an authentic cloud website hosting vendor.
The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can truly attain it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web portals, mailboxes, and so on, right?
To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing plainly remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the email associated services. Doing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one or perchance an entire bunch of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on different continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting firm:
dns1.starthosts.net
dns2.starthosts.net
If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote file storage solution, as multiple service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely supply file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will come up out of nowhere.