Cloud Web Hosting Unveiled

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. In spite of that, just a few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale succinct, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage tool for all clients, does not convert any particular web hosting service provider into an actual cloud website hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can actually achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web sites, mailbox aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing only remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire stack of e-mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous data center facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.comtechpal.com

dns2.comtechpal.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote data storage service, as multiple hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe several brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge out of the blue.