Description of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Still, just a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any given hosting company into an authentic cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. Very few service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, online portals, email accounts, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing just remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the e-mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps a whole assortment of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting company will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.host.tropical.ug

dns2.host.tropical.ug

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server merely reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they simply deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will come up out of nowhere.