Explanation of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Still, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which involves one single disk storage tool for all users, does not turn any specific hosting company into an actual cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. Very few hosting providers can actually accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving countless domain names, web portals, mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing solely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the mail linked services. Carrying out nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or maybe an entire stack of mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.comtechbd.com

dns2.comtechbd.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you see a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server merely displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will emerge out of nowhere.