Cloud Website Hosting Definition

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. In spite of that, only a few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which involves one file storage device for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting company into a genuine cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. Very few hosting suppliers can really attain it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domains, web pages, email aliases, etc., aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying simply remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted only to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be only one single or perchance an entire pack of mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.cheapwebhosting.ltd

dns2.cheapwebhosting.ltd

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS plainly exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage service, as many hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably a number of new clouds we presently are not familiar with will show up out of nowhere.