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What Actually is Cloud Hosting?

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What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. However, only a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage device for all users, does not turn any particular hosting distributor into an actual cloud hosting company.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private 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 one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of web hosting providers can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, sites, email accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering only remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or perhaps an entire set of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting distributor will support multiple server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting vendor:


dns1.roninserviciosweb.com

dns2.roninserviciosweb.com


If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a DNS such as the one below:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS just illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted only to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty 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 mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a couple of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear out of the blue.

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