What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting jargon. In spite of that, only a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story brief, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage device for all customers, does not convert any given hosting firm into a real cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of web hosting distributors can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, online portals, email aliases, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying solely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the e-mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire stack of mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.bluedomainhosting.com

dns2.bluedomainhosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly displays that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited just 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 web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they simply distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly several brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will surface out of the blue.