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Cloud Hosting Clarified

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Nevertheless, only a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all users, does not convert any given hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations name the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. Very few hosting suppliers can really accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domains, online portals, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the email linked services. Performing nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or possibly a whole cluster of email servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting solutions provider will support numerous data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting firm:


dns1.diligohost.com

dns2.diligohost.com


If such a DNS is provided by your hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS only demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly 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 physical server deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote disk storage service, as multiple hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely provide file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.