What Indeed is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Even so, only a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which involves one disk storage device for all clients, does not convert any particular provider into an actual cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage services for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very scanty number of hosting companies can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domain names, online portals, emails, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing solely remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or possibly a whole cluster of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

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

dns1.jamasoft.net

dns2.jamasoft.net

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote data storage service, as numerous web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny part of the entire cloud 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 DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly several brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will appear out of the blue.