What Does Cloud Hosting Represent?
What is cloud hosting in reality? The term ‘cloud’ seems to be quite modern in today’s computing, Internet and web hosting parlance. Even so, just a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Solely.
1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single data storage device for all users, does not convert any given hosting company into an authentic cloud hosting services provider.
The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but… we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or business needs. There’s constantly one “but”, isn’t there? It’s not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a “cloud hosting” service. That’s because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner – this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and “clouded”. And that’s quite problematical. A very meager number of web hosting firms can really do it.
2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving a lot of domains, websites, email boxes, etc., aren’t we?
To name a web hosting service a “cloud hosting” one calls for a lot more than providing plainly remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or probably a whole group of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users’ web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting firm will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.
Here’s an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting packages provider:
dns1.web-designer.top
dns2.web-designer.top
If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting accounts provider, it’s not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a DNS like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn’t any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS merely exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it’s cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel’s case, a single physical server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage – The Distorted Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as lots of service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they simply furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it’s simply one simple component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There’s plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and… in the not too distant future, perchance a few new clouds we presently don’t know about will surface out of nowhere.
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