Cloud Website Hosting Uncovered

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and web hosting parlance. Yet, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single data storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting company into a genuine cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting distributors dub the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of web hosting firms can truly achieve it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domains, online portals, electronic mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing merely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the e-mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole stack of mail servers, depending on the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting provider will support multiple server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.hosting.betterchoiceit.com

dns2.hosting.betterchoiceit.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS just shows that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote disk storage solution, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up unexpectedly.