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What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Nevertheless, just a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very meager number of web hosting vendors can really attain it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web portals, e-mails, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing simply remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the e-mail related services. Performing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire bunch of email servers, determined by the total load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting firm will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.

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


dns1.malanghost.net

dns2.malanghost.net


If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS plainly exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited just to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a few new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface unexpectedly.

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