How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?
What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Yet, only a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.
1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which comprises one file storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting provider into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to distribute remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very scanty number of web hosting providers can really attain it.
2. It Entails Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, web portals, email mailboxes, and so on, right?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Performing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one single or probably an entire collection of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting firm will support numerous datacenter locations on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting firm:
dns1.123getonline.com
dns2.123getonline.com
If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you observe a DNS like the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server merely indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting corporations 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 categorized as such, since they plainly provide file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will surface out of nowhere.
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