What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Nonetheless, only a few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not convert any specific web hosting vendor into an actual cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can truly accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web sites, electronic mails, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing only remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or possibly an entire assortment of mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting provider will support multiple server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting company:

dns1.myhostshop.net

dns2.myhostshop.net

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS only reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote disk storage solution, as multiple hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they merely furnish file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small 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 DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.