What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. In spite of that, just a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage device for all users, does not turn any specific web hosting supplier into a real cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can really attain it.

2. It Includes Domains, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving countless domain names, web portals, mailbox accounts, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying simply remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one or possibly a whole pack of e-mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting supplier will support multiple data center sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.hosted.cheap

dns2.hosted.cheap

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as numerous hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they plainly supply file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file 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, as it's just one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge out of the blue.