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What Indeed is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and hosting jargon. Even so, just a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting firms call the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of service providers can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domains, online portals, e-mail box accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying plainly remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole group of mail servers, depending on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting accounts provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting company:


dns1.handhonline.co.uk

dns2.handhonline.co.uk


If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you observe 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 DNS simply illustrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as numerous hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface unexpectedly.