Cloud Hosting Explained

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Nevertheless, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular hosting firm into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of web hosting service providers can really do it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domains, websites, email accounts, etc., right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than providing plainly remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted only to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one or possibly a whole set of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting packages provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on different continents.

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

dns1.dcowebify.com

dns2.dcowebify.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server only exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote file storage service, as plenty of web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.