What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, only a few actually know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage device for all clients, does not convert any specific service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of web hosting service providers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, websites, e-mails, etc., aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying merely remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the mail related services. Performing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or perchance a whole collection of mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting accounts provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting firm:

dns1.raidvps.com

dns2.raidvps.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you spot a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS just shows that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server deals with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote data storage solution, as multiple web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a few brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of nowhere.