Description of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Still, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific hosting distributor into an actual cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. Very few hosting providers can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domains, websites, email aliases, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing just remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or maybe an entire group of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.eu.suuhost.com

dns2.eu.suuhost.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just illustrates 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 holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as many web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance several brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will show up out of the blue.