What Does Cloud Website Hosting Represent?

 

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Nevertheless, only a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale short, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which comprises one single file storage device for all users, does not transform any given hosting provider into a genuine cloud web hosting supplier.
The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of hosting service providers can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web sites, emails, and so on, are we not?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing simply remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated just to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one single or perchance an entire stack of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting vendor will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.[rp_host]
dns2.[rp_host]

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS simply illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will show up out of nowhere.

 

Till next time!
Much Success!
Keith Holloman Founder/CEO
Keith@ubuildyourwebsite.com 
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