What is Cloud Hosting?
What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story brief, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one single file storage tool for all users, does not transform any specific web hosting provider into an authentic cloud hosting company.
The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of hosting firms can really attain it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domain names, web sites, email mailboxes, etc., aren't we?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering merely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted only to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or perchance an entire set of mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting provider will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting distributor:
dns1.sysup.link
dns2.sysup.link
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote data storage solution, as many hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one tiny part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.
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