Explanation of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Yet, only a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one file storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting company into a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can truly do it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving many domains, sites, e-mail box accounts, etc., aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing simply remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be only one single or probably a whole pack of mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.lionheartconsulting.co

dns2.lionheartconsulting.co

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited just to a remote disk storage service, as lots of web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will appear unexpectedly.