Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Nonetheless, just a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all customers, does not turn any given hosting distributor into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to supply remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can actually make it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a hosting service, serving many domain names, online portals, email mailbox accounts, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering plainly remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the e-mail related services. Executing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be only one or perchance a whole cluster of mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider will support numerous datacenter sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.mydragonweb.com

dns2.mydragonweb.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly manifests that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as multiple hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply supply file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks 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 only one small part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of new clouds we currently are not informed about will spring up unexpectedly.