What In Fact is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. However, just a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not convert any particular hosting corporation into a genuine cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very scanty number of web hosting firms can actually make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web pages, e-mail aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing merely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted only to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one or maybe an entire collection of mail servers, determined by the overall load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting company will support multiple data center sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.www.goldendelta.net

dns2.www.goldendelta.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server simply reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote data storage service, as numerous web hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they simply distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will show up out of the blue.