Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Even so, just a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single data storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular hosting provider into an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting firms call the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting firms can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, sites, mailboxes, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying solely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps a whole bundle of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, 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 locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.throst.info

dns2.throst.info

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely manifests that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine handles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote data storage solution, as lots of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered 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 foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge out of nowhere.