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Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. However, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all users, does not transform any given hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage services for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. Very few hosting corporations can actually achieve it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, online portals, mailbox aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing merely remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated only to the electronic mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one or probably a whole bunch of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting company will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting corporation:


dns1.malanghost.net

dns2.malanghost.net


If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a DNS like the one underneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted only to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one simple component of the whole cloud web 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 Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface unexpectedly.