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How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

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What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Still, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting distributor into an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very meager number of hosting vendors can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, websites, email mailboxes, and so on, are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying only remote file storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the email linked services. Performing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or perchance a whole bundle of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting company will support numerous datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting firm:


dns1.hosting-store.ihostingdomains.net

dns2.hosting-store.ihostingdomains.net


If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a DNS like the one beneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS just exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up out of nowhere.

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