Description of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story brief, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which comprises one file storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific service provider into an actual cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very scanty number of service providers can actually accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, sites, mail accounts, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying only remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail related services. Doing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire collection of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting 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 actual cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.incorpmediahosting.com

dns2.incorpmediahosting.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS just demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as many hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will emerge out of the blue.