What Indeed is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terminology. Yet, just a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale short, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage service, which comprises one single file storage device for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting firm into a genuine cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few hosting companies can really achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, sites, mails, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing solely remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or possibly an entire cluster of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.wantok.click

dns2.wantok.click

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you see a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably a number of new clouds we currently are not familiar with will come up out of the blue.