What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. Nonetheless, only a few really know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which involves one file storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. Very few web hosting vendors can actually achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving numerous domains, web pages, emails, and so on, aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than distributing only remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted just to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be just one or perhaps an entire set of e-mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.cirrushub.com

dns2.cirrushub.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you notice a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS only manifests that the hosting platform 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 ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they simply offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we presently are not informed about will appear out of the blue.