Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Yet, only a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which involves one disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any given hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting providers call the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting suppliers can truly attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domains, websites, email accounts, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing only remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole stack of mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.bitsolt.com

dns2.bitsolt.com

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS simply displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage service, as plenty of hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, probably a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will show up unexpectedly.