What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Yet, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which involves one single file storage device for all customers, does not turn any given hosting company into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very scanty number of hosting corporations can truly accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving numerous domain names, online portals, email mailboxes, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than providing merely remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the email associated services. Doing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or perchance an entire bundle of mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting provider will support numerous datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.supportivehosting.host

dns2.supportivehosting.host

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS simply reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe 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, one single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote data storage service, as many service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface out of the blue.