Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. However, just a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale concise, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which involves one file storage device for all users, does not transform any given hosting corporation into a genuine cloud website hosting corporation.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of web hosting service providers can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domains, web pages, mailbox accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing plainly remote file storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated just to the mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be just one single or maybe a whole bunch of email servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting company will support multiple data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.bestservicecloud.eu

dns2.bestservicecloud.eu

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you observe a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined just to a remote file storage service, as numerous web hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a bunch of new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up unexpectedly.