Cloud Website Hosting Explained

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Even so, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Delivering a remote file storage service, which involves one disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any given web hosting provider into an authentic cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of hosting vendors can actually accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving numerous domains, web pages, electronic mail aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or perchance an entire cluster of email servers, based on the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

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

dns1.hostflex.net

dns2.hostflex.net

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you perceive a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server merely displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small segment of the entire 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 Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will show up out of nowhere.