What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting jargon. Nevertheless, just a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all users, does not turn any specific web hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very scanty number of hosting suppliers can actually attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, web sites, e-mail boxes, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than providing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one or possibly a whole cluster of email servers, based on the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting company:

dns1.bg.f7en.biz

dns2.bg.f7en.biz

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you discern a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server simply illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote file storage service, as numerous web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a couple of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up unexpectedly.