How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?
What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting terminology. However, only a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story concise, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.
1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage appliance for all users, does not convert any specific hosting supplier into an authentic cloud web hosting company.
The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of hosting companies can actually make it.
2. It Involves Domains, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, sites, email mailbox accounts, etc., aren't we?
To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than providing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole group of mail servers, based on the total load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting supplier will support numerous server farm facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting vendor:
dns1.www.brehost.com
dns2.www.brehost.com
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted just to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they merely provide file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed very plain, 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 small part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web 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 upcoming future, possibly several new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will surface out of the blue.
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