What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting parlance. In spite of that, just a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale short, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all users, does not transform any specific provider into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of web hosting distributors can actually accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web sites, e-mails, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing solely remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one or probably a whole bunch of mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.liquidnet.com.au

dns2.liquidnet.com.au

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply shows that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will come up unexpectedly.