What Does Cloud Web Hosting Represent?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any particular hosting vendor into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can really do it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web sites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying just remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted just to the e-mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or probably an entire array of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same goes 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 services provider will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.

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

dns1.www.webhostingdorks.com

dns2.www.webhostingdorks.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you perceive a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS only illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply offer file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.