Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Nonetheless, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which involves one data storage device for all clients, does not transform any given hosting company into a genuine cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting firms call the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few hosting vendors can truly achieve it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, websites, electronic mail accounts, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than offering merely remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be just one or probably a whole assortment of email servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting provider will support multiple server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.hosting.betterchoiceit.com

dns2.hosting.betterchoiceit.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote file storage service, as lots of web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one small fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a number of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.