What is Cloud Hosting?
What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. However, only a select few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long tale succinct, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.
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1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.
1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all customers, does not transform any particular provider into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.
The cPanel hosting firms call the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very small number of hosting suppliers can truly accomplish it.
2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.
Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, web portals, mail aliases, and so on, are we not?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing simply remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) must be devoted solely to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one or perhaps a whole set of e-mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting packages provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud hosting corporation:
dns1.ashkloud.com
dns2.ashkloud.com
If such a DNS 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 convinced when you discern a DNS such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply demonstrates that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as numerous hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe several new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.