Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting parlance. Nevertheless, only a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all customers, does not convert any given web hosting company into a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very meager number of hosting companies can really do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, online portals, mailbox aliases, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than providing plainly remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail related services. Doing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be only one or possibly an entire assortment of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

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

dns1.mydragonweb.com

dns2.mydragonweb.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server handles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote data storage solution, as lots of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they simply provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably a bunch of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.