What Indeed is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Yet, just a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any given hosting vendor into an actual cloud web hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting vendors call the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very meager number of web hosting service providers can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, websites, e-mail addresses, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying solely remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the email connected services. Executing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be only one single or perchance a whole bunch of email servers, determined by the total server load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting supplier will support multiple datacenter locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting firm:

dns1.www.hostinbase.com

dns2.www.hostinbase.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted just to a remote file storage solution, as multiple web hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely provide file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will surface unexpectedly.