What Indeed is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Nevertheless, only a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting firm into an actual cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting firms call the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can really make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web portals, mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing simply remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one single or probably a whole stack of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting supplier will support multiple data center locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.web.sebasalliance.com

dns2.web.sebasalliance.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you discern a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS plainly demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined just to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform appears indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up unexpectedly.