Cloud Website Hosting Revealed

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Still, only a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting vendor into an actual cloud website hosting services provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can really accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, websites, email accounts, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the electronic mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or possibly an entire set of email servers, depending on the total load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.stampycloud.com

dns2.stampycloud.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS only indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote file storage solution, as lots of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, maybe a number of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will appear out of nowhere.