Cloud Website Hosting Definition

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and web hosting parlance. Nevertheless, only a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all clients, does not turn any specific web hosting corporation into a real cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to distribute 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 hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual 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-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of service providers can actually achieve it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domains, sites, mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering merely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one or probably an entire cluster of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.tellushosting.net

dns2.tellushosting.net

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server copes with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote data storage service, as a lot of hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one simple fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will turn up out of nowhere.