What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Yet, just a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting vendor into a real cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very meager number of hosting distributors can really accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, e-mail boxes, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or perhaps an entire pack of e-mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.webhost.center

dns2.webhost.center

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server simply shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote file storage service, as numerous hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they merely distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a few brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will show up out of nowhere.