Cloud Website Hosting Definition

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. In spite of that, only a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage tool for all customers, does not turn any particular hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting corporation.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very meager number of service providers can truly attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, web sites, mails, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying just remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the electronic mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or probably a whole array of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting corporation will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting company:

dns1.gulfnetlink.com

dns2.gulfnetlink.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server simply reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server handles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote data storage service, as numerous hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a couple of new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface out of the blue.