Definition of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terms. Nonetheless, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very small number of web hosting distributors can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, websites, mailbox aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering simply remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the email linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one or probably a whole group of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting vendor will support multiple data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.www.gapsacademy.com

dns2.www.gapsacademy.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Interpretation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as lots of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel 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 few brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up unexpectedly.