What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. In spite of that, only a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting firm into a real cloud website hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting providers call the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of web hosting distributors can really accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web pages, e-mail addresses, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than offering simply remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one or perhaps a whole bunch of e-mail servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.blackandwhiteweb.com

dns2.blackandwhiteweb.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly displays that the hosting environment 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 server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe several brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will appear out of nowhere.