How Does Cloud Hosting Function?
What is cloud hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Offering a remote file storage service, which comprises one file storage tool for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting supplier into an actual cloud hosting supplier.
The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of web hosting service providers can actually accomplish it.
2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.
Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domains, sites, mailboxes, etc., are we not?
To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than offering merely remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be dedicated just to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be only one single or possibly an entire cluster of mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting solutions provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting plans provider:
dns1.merwinservers.net
dns2.merwinservers.net
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe 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 Domain Name Server merely indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as lots of hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will emerge out of the blue.
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