Description of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Yet, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale brief, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

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

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of hosting companies can actually attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving plenty of domain names, online portals, email mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than providing just remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted only to the email linked services. Executing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole bunch of mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. 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 genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.cliqspot.com

dns2.cliqspot.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you spot a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote file storage solution, as numerous web hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a few new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.