What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Nonetheless, just a few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any particular web hosting distributor into an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of web hosting providers can really achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, websites, email mailbox accounts, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing plainly remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or maybe a whole stack of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

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

dns1.baldguyhosting.com

dns2.baldguyhosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS only reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as lots of web hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge unexpectedly.