Description of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, just a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which comprises one file storage tool for all users, does not turn any particular hosting service provider into a genuine cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting vendors dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up till 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 needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very small number of hosting firms can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving countless domain names, sites, e-mail accounts, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than distributing simply remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these given assignments. There might be only one single or perchance an entire assortment of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting company will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud web hosting solutions provider:

dns1.greenehost.co

dns2.greenehost.co

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server 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 simply exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a few new clouds we currently don't know about will come up unexpectedly.