What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. Nevertheless, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale succinct, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any particular hosting company into an authentic cloud website hosting corporation.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very meager number of web hosting providers can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, online portals, electronic mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering plainly remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email connected services. Performing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps an entire bundle of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Doing nothing different. 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 an actual cloud website hosting corporation will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.hosting.octacorenetworks.com

dns2.hosting.octacorenetworks.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited only to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a number of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will surface unexpectedly.