What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. In spite of that, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single data storage tool for all users, does not turn any particular web hosting supplier into a real cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. Very few web hosting service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Emails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domains, online portals, e-mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing just remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole stack of mail servers, based on the total server load generated. 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 goes for the customers' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting corporation will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.sexfriendly.biz

dns2.sexfriendly.biz

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you notice a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a number of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will spring up out of the blue.