Cloud Website Hosting Uncovered

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Still, just a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any given service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces 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 whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very meager number of hosting providers can really make it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering merely remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one or perhaps an entire assortment of mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting plans provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting corporation:

dns1.techbridge.services

dns2.techbridge.services

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a few new clouds we currently are not informed about will appear unexpectedly.