What Does Cloud Website Hosting Denote?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Yet, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale short, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which comprises one file storage device for all users, does not transform any given web hosting supplier into an actual cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can truly attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, web pages, electronic mails, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering only remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or probably an entire pack of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.resellerspanel.info

dns2.resellerspanel.info

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS only exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps several new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge unexpectedly.