Cloud Website Hosting Disclosed

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terms. Even so, only a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story brief, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single data storage device for all clients, does not convert any given hosting corporation into an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can actually achieve it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domains, web pages, email mailbox accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or probably a whole bunch of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.geldbach-solutions.de

dns2.geldbach-solutions.de

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS simply shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as multiple web hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one small fragment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will emerge out of nowhere.