What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Even so, just a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very meager number of service providers can truly make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, web pages, electronic mail addresses, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the e-mail related services. Performing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one single or maybe a whole array of mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier will support numerous data center locations on different continents.

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

dns1.h2nweb.com

dns2.h2nweb.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely displays that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted only to a remote disk storage solution, as many hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one tiny component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will come up out of nowhere.