Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Even so, just a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale concise, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which involves one file storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any particular web hosting corporation into an authentic cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. Very few web hosting service providers can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, web portals, mailbox aliases, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering merely remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated just to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or perchance an entire group of email servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting corporation will support numerous datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.layer3.host

dns2.layer3.host

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS only demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined solely to a remote disk storage service, as many hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not informed about will spring up unexpectedly.