What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, just a select few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story concise, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all clients, does not convert any particular web hosting vendor into a real cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply 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 extremely hard. A very scanty number of hosting firms can actually attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web portals, email box accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than offering plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire bundle of email servers, based on the total load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.masterwebmaker.com

dns2.masterwebmaker.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited only to a remote disk storage service, as numerous service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the 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 number of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will emerge unexpectedly.