Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting lingo. Even so, only a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story brief, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which involves one data storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any particular hosting corporation into an actual cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting distributors can really make it.

2. It Includes Domains, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving countless domains, online portals, e-mail aliases, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the email related services. Doing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire array of e-mail servers, based on the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple datacenter locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.wonderlyweb.com

dns2.wonderlyweb.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you perceive a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote disk storage service, as many hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the 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 foreseeable future, possibly a few brand new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.