Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting lingo. However, just a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all users, does not turn any specific hosting company into an actual cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few web hosting firms can actually attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domains, websites, email box accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than providing simply remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or perhaps a whole assortment of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting company will support multiple server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.mbcwebhosting.com

dns2.mbcwebhosting.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS just manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote file storage service, as multiple hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they simply provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly several brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will show up out of the blue.