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What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Still, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long tale brief, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting firm into a genuine cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers call the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. Very few hosting corporations can actually accomplish it.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving countless domain names, sites, e-mail aliases, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying plainly remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one or possibly a whole cluster of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the users' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting plans provider:

dns1.www.rapidspacehosting.com

dns2.www.rapidspacehosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined only to a remote data storage solution, as many web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a number of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will appear unexpectedly.

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