Cloud Website Hosting Description
What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting lingo. Yet, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all users, does not turn any specific web hosting vendor into a genuine cloud website hosting vendor.
The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. Very few web hosting vendors can truly make it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.
Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving plenty of domains, websites, email accounts, and so on, aren't we?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing merely remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the email related services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire collection of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' web 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 an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple data center sites on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting services provider:
dns1.servman.space
dns2.servman.space
If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a DNS such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS only indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will surface out of the blue.