What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Still, just a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting service provider into an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of hosting service providers can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web pages, email addresses, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than offering solely remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or probably a whole bunch of email servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting solutions provider will support numerous server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.milwaukeehostplans.com

dns2.milwaukeehostplans.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote file storage service, as lots of web 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 long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely supply file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very 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 segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a few new clouds we currently are not informed about will turn up out of the blue.