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How Does Cloud Hosting Work?
What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Nonetheless, only a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting corporation.
The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of hosting vendors can actually make it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, sites, e-mail aliases, and so on, aren't we?
To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be devoted just to the e-mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or probably an entire group of email servers, based on the total load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting provider will support numerous data center sites on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider:
dns1.spacenet-hosting.com
dns2.spacenet-hosting.com
If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server only manifests that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not limited solely to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, probably several brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface unexpectedly.