Cloud Hosting Disclosed

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Yet, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale succinct, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Providing a remote file storage service, which comprises one disk storage tool for all clients, does not transform any particular web hosting firm into an authentic cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can really attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, websites, email mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing solely remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one single or possibly an entire pack of email servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider will support numerous server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.theconsult.net

dns2.theconsult.net

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS just demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined simply to a remote disk storage service, as numerous service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel 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 few brand new clouds we currently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.