Cloud Hosting Description
What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Even so, just a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy 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 Disk Storage Solely.
1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which involves one single file storage appliance for all users, does not transform any specific hosting firm into a genuine cloud web hosting supplier.
The cPanel hosting suppliers dub the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of web hosting service providers can truly accomplish it.
2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, online portals, mailbox aliases, etc., aren't we?
To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than offering merely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or possibly an entire set of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting packages provider will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting accounts provider:
dns1.khmerelite.us
dns2.khmerelite.us
If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you discern a DNS 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 plainly manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one tiny component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will spring up out of the blue.