What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Still, just a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage device for all users, does not turn any given web hosting vendor into a real cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting providers dub the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. Very few web hosting distributors can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domain names, websites, mailbox accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing just remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps an entire bunch of e-mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting company:

dns1.webpage-it.com

dns2.webpage-it.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you discern a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server plainly manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote file storage service, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, possibly a number of new clouds we currently don't know about will come up out of the blue.