Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which involves one single file storage tool for all users, does not transform any particular hosting company into an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to distribute remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. Very few hosting providers can really make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, web pages, e-mail boxes, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying simply remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or perchance an entire bunch of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' 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 accounts provider will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.

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

dns1.kashost.com

dns2.kashost.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS just shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote file storage service, as numerous web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny constituent of the whole cloud 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 FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, maybe a few brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will appear out of nowhere.