Cloud Website Hosting Disclosed

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Still, only a few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story concise, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any given hosting firm into an authentic cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very scanty number of hosting firms can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving countless domain names, sites, electronic mail aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing just remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one or maybe a whole bundle of email servers, based on the overall server load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the clients' 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 hosting distributor will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud hosting supplier:

dns1.a1host.xyz

dns2.a1host.xyz

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server only shows that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined only to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they plainly distribute file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one simple fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we currently are not informed about will come up out of nowhere.