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Explanation of Cloud Hosting

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What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Nonetheless, only a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story brief, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which involves one single file storage tool for all users, does not convert any specific hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting suppliers can actually achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mails, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, web portals, e-mail accounts, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing merely remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the e-mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole set of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting solutions provider will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting firm:


dns1.saleshub.host

dns2.saleshub.host


If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote disk storage solution, as many web hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, 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 simply one tiny fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps several brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will show up unexpectedly.

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