How Cloud Hosting Works
What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. In spite of that, just a few really know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which involves one single data storage device for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting supplier into an actual cloud hosting firm.
The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting providers can actually achieve it.
2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, websites, emails, etc., aren't we?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than offering only remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the e-mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole array of mail servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting distributor will support multiple data center locations on multiple continents.
Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud hosting corporation:
dns1.palmservers.com
dns2.palmservers.com
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS merely exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote file storage service, as plenty of hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will come up unexpectedly.
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