Description of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term ‘cloud’ seems to be quite trendy in today’s IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Still, only a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale short, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage device for all clients, does not convert any given web hosting vendor into an actual cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers call the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but… we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There’s invariably one “but”, isn’t there? It’s not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a “cloud web hosting” service. That’s because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way – this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and “clouded”. And that’s extremely difficult. A very scanty number of hosting suppliers can really make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domains, web pages, email mailboxes, etc., aren’t we?

To call a hosting service a “cloud web hosting” one demands a lot more than furnishing just remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one or maybe a whole collection of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers’ web hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here’s an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting provider:

dns1.adoserver.com

dns2.adoserver.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting company, it’s not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn’t any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server only reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it’s cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel’s case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage – The Warped Description of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as multiple hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it’s just one small part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There’s plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and… in the foreseeable future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will emerge out of the blue.