Cloud Website Hosting Unmasked

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Still, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all clients, does not convert any given hosting service provider into an actual cloud web hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file 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 platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. Very few web hosting corporations can really do it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domains, sites, mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than providing solely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the email connected services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or possibly an entire assortment of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting firm will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider:

dns1.jsotohosting.com

dns2.jsotohosting.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you notice a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined simply to a remote file storage solution, as multiple web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly supply file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, 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 only one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will appear out of the blue.