Cloud Website Hosting Explained

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting jargon. In spite of that, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any given hosting company into a real cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very small number of web hosting corporations can actually make it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving many domain names, sites, email accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering merely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one single or possibly an entire bunch of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting provider will support numerous datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.successhosting.net

dns2.successhosting.net

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server merely exhibits that the web hosting environment 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 98%. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny component of the entire cloud 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 DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will surface out of nowhere.