Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Even so, just a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one file storage tool for all users, does not transform any specific web hosting supplier into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few service providers can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web pages, e-mail box accounts, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing merely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps an entire assortment of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous data center locations on different continents.

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

dns1.phwebhost.com

dns2.phwebhost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as numerous web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they simply supply file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few new clouds we currently don't know about will come up out of the blue.