Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting parlance. Yet, only a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all users, does not turn any given web hosting corporation into an actual cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very small number of hosting firms can truly achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web sites, mailbox accounts, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than providing only remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the e-mail connected services. Doing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one single or probably an entire set of mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting packages provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.hostgush.com

dns2.hostgush.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server simply indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted only to a remote file storage service, as plenty of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they plainly deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up out of the blue.