Cloud Website Hosting Defined

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Even so, only a few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all users, does not convert any particular hosting supplier into a genuine cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very small number of hosting suppliers can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, websites, mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing solely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the email related services. Performing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be just one or perhaps a whole collection of mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider:

dns1.hostworldservices.us

dns2.hostworldservices.us

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server merely exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited only to a remote file storage solution, as lots of hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they simply distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud 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 found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a few new clouds we currently are not familiar with will come up unexpectedly.