Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and web hosting lingo. Still, just a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which involves one data storage device for all clients, does not convert any specific web hosting firm into an authentic cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very meager number of hosting distributors can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mail Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, web portals, electronic mails, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering only remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email connected services. Doing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one or perhaps an entire group of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting vendor will support multiple datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.holytrinityhosting.com

dns2.holytrinityhosting.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server simply shows that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined just to a remote file storage solution, as numerous hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a couple of new clouds we currently are not informed about will come up out of the blue.