How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. Nevertheless, just a few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single data storage device for all users, does not turn any particular hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to supply remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very meager number of web hosting vendors can actually do it.
2. It Entails Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, websites, email aliases, and so on, aren't we?
To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing just remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted solely to the electronic mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one or maybe a whole group of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting supplier will support multiple data center facility sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting company:
dns1.woow.host
dns2.woow.host
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS merely indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited just to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of web hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps several brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will come up unexpectedly.
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