Cloud Website Hosting Uncovered

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Nonetheless, just a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which involves one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any given web hosting firm into an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of hosting distributors can really do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving many domain names, web sites, email mailbox accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one or probably an entire array of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting supplier will support multiple server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.eu.suuhost.com

dns2.eu.suuhost.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely shows that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited simply to a remote data storage service, as multiple web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly furnish file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will appear out of nowhere.