Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, just a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story brief, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which involves one data storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular service provider into a real cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to provide remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can truly achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, websites, e-mail box accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one or possibly a whole cluster of mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting corporation will support multiple data center facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting plans provider:

dns1.aplusweb.net

dns2.aplusweb.net

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you perceive a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS just manifests that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe 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 server copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a number of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear out of nowhere.