Cloud Website Hosting Revealed

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terminology. Even so, just a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story concise, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all users, does not transform any given web hosting provider into a genuine cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of hosting distributors can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domains, Electronic Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, websites, mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than supplying only remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated just to the electronic mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one single or probably a whole bunch of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting supplier will support multiple server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting company:

dns1.aceown.com

dns2.aceown.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote data storage service, as lots of hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered 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 upcoming future, possibly a few brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will spring up out of the blue.