Cloud Website Hosting Description
What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. In spite of that, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.
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1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all users, does not transform any given web hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting corporation.
The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very meager number of web hosting corporations can really achieve it.
2. It Entails Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving plenty of domains, sites, emails, and so on, are we not?
To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing simply remote file storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one or perchance a whole cluster of email servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.
Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting corporation:
dns1.primehost.com.ng
dns2.primehost.com.ng
If such a DNS is offered by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote data storage service, as lots of hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely provide file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one tiny fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.