How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?
What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Yet, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.
1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one data storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any given web hosting provider into a genuine cloud hosting vendor.
The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very small number of hosting firms can truly achieve it.
2. It Includes Domains, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domain names, web sites, electronic mail aliases, and so on, are we not?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing solely remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the mail connected services. Performing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or probably an entire group of electronic mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting solutions provider will support numerous data center sites on different continents.
Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud hosting vendor:
dns1.www.gaynewscenter.net
dns2.www.gaynewscenter.net
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS just demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not confined just to a remote disk storage service, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up out of the blue.
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