Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Still, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long tale succinct, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one data storage tool for all users, does not transform any given web hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very small number of hosting distributors can really make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web portals, e-mailboxes, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing solely remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the email associated services. Executing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be just one single or possibly a whole cluster of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, 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 accounts provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.gobighosts.com

dns2.gobighosts.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server simply demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote data storage solution, as multiple hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they simply furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. 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 web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one small segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly a number of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will spring up unexpectedly.