What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. However, only a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one file storage tool for all customers, does not turn any specific provider into an authentic cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. Very few service providers can truly make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, websites, emails, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing only remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one single or possibly an entire assortment of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual number. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting company will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.hostmagi.site

dns2.hostmagi.site

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS only reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.