Cloud Hosting Unveiled

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Even so, only a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all users, does not convert any specific hosting company into an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to supply remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very scanty number of service providers can really attain it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than offering solely remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the email connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or maybe a whole array of e-mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting plans provider:

dns1.myhostingbeats.com

dns2.myhostingbeats.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined solely to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny segment 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 email cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up unexpectedly.