Cloud Web Hosting Unveiled

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Nevertheless, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story short, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all clients, does not convert any particular web hosting provider into an authentic cloud website hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, based on a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very small number of hosting vendors can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web sites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than offering plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or probably a whole assortment of email servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting firm will support multiple data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.netservercloud.com

dns2.netservercloud.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you discern a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server handles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited just to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe several brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will show up unexpectedly.