Cloud Website Hosting Unmasked

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terms. Nonetheless, just a few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage device for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very scanty number of hosting companies can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving countless domain names, web portals, e-mails, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the e-mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire pack of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.iwindows.net

dns2.iwindows.net

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they merely deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will appear out of the blue.