What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?
What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, just a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one data storage device for all customers, does not transform any given web hosting service provider into an actual cloud hosting firm.
The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, exactly 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 only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very meager number of web hosting service providers can actually achieve it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, Emails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.
Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web sites, e-mails, and so on, aren't we?
To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying merely remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the email linked services. Performing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or possibly a whole cluster of email servers, determined by the total load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting accounts provider will support numerous datacenter locations on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider:
dns1.hosting.site2seo.uk
dns2.hosting.site2seo.uk
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern a DNS such as the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS just manifests that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote data storage service, as multiple hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly offer file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface out of nowhere.
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