Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. However, only a few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any specific web hosting distributor into a real cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other components of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting providers can truly achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domain names, websites, email boxes, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing plainly remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the e-mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one single or probably an entire assortment of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.sequerah.com

dns2.sequerah.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly shows that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one tiny constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will emerge out of nowhere.