What Does Cloud Web Hosting Signify?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Nonetheless, only a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage device for all clients, does not convert any particular hosting service provider into an actual cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few web hosting corporations can really accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web sites, e-mail aliases, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than providing plainly remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted only to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one single or maybe a whole stack of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.h2nweb.com

dns2.h2nweb.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS just exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine takes care of all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined only to a remote file storage service, as a lot of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will come up unexpectedly.