Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Even so, just a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any specific web hosting vendor into a genuine cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting vendors call the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of hosting providers can really attain it.

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

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web portals, email boxes, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering simply remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one single or probably an entire assortment of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous datacenter sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.cwh.expediteinformatics.com

dns2.cwh.expediteinformatics.com

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server plainly displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote file storage service, as many service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they plainly distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a few brand new clouds we currently don't know about will show up out of the blue.