What Does Cloud Hosting Stand for?
What is cloud hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Still, just a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Only.
1. Providing a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not convert any specific web hosting supplier into a genuine cloud hosting supplier.
The cPanel hosting companies name the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, based on a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very scanty number of hosting firms can really make it.
2. It Entails Domain Names, Electronic Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domains, web pages, e-mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying solely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or probably an entire cluster of email servers, based on the total load produced. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting packages provider:
dns1.host.evtinwebsite.com
dns2.host.evtinwebsite.com
If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS just displays that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote file storage solution, as numerous hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly furnish file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a few new clouds we currently are not informed about will show up out of nowhere.
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