What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Even so, only a few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which involves one single file storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting company into an actual cloud web hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can really achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web pages, electronic mail accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing just remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the e-mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one single or possibly a whole group of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have a true cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual number. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting services provider will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.wd4us.com

dns2.wd4us.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server merely shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will show up unexpectedly.