How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?
What is cloud hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Even so, only a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale short, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any particular web hosting corporation into an authentic cloud hosting solutions provider.
The cPanel hosting firms call the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of hosting providers can really attain it.
2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domain names, online portals, mail accounts, and so on, right?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering merely remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the email related services. Performing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or perchance a whole bundle of email servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting accounts provider will support numerous server farm locations on different continents.
Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting company:
dns1.www.byohosting.com
dns2.www.byohosting.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you see a DNS such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server only shows that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately 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 referred to as such, since they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge out of nowhere.
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