What In Fact is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Yet, just a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story succinct, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all clients, does not transform any given hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of hosting service providers can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web portals, mail addresses, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing solely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one single or maybe an entire bundle of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.desk-top-hosting.com

dns2.desk-top-hosting.com

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote data storage service, as plenty of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one small constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will show up out of nowhere.