What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting jargon. Even so, only a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting companies can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web pages, e-mail boxes, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing just remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated just to the e-mail connected services. Doing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole assortment of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.host750.com

dns2.host750.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as lots of hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently are not informed about will come up out of the blue.