What is Cloud Hosting?
What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting lingo. In spite of that, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting distributor into an actual cloud hosting services provider.
The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very scanty number of hosting distributors can actually accomplish it.
2. It Entails Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, online portals, email mailbox accounts, etc., right?
To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying merely remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be only one single or perchance a whole cluster of e-mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting packages provider will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting solutions provider:
dns1.gstartup.agency
dns2.gstartup.agency
If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you perceive a DNS such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted only to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they plainly distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.
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