What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. In spite of that, just a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which involves one file storage device for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting supplier into a real cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few web hosting distributors can really make it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, websites, e-mail accounts, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing merely remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the mail related services. Performing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one single or probably an entire array of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.topdomaincheck.com

dns2.topdomaincheck.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS merely reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited just to a remote disk storage solution, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they merely furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really quite plain, 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 merely one small part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will turn up out of the blue.