Cloud Website Hosting Description

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. Nonetheless, only a few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all customers, does not transform any particular web hosting supplier into a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of hosting suppliers can truly achieve it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web sites, email mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing just remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be just one or possibly an entire bundle of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

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

dns1.suncloud-hosting.com

dns2.suncloud-hosting.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine takes care of all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited simply to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is 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, since it's just one small segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will turn up unexpectedly.