What Does Cloud Website Hosting Represent?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. However, just a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale short, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any given hosting vendor into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of web hosting providers can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving numerous domain names, websites, mail aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying merely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or probably a whole cluster of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting vendor will support multiple data center facility locations on different continents.

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

dns1.outraged-hosting.com

dns2.outraged-hosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you see a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server only illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a couple of new clouds we currently are not informed about will turn up out of the blue.