What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Yet, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale brief, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any given web hosting corporation into a real cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very small number of hosting providers can really make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, sites, mails, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering merely remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one or perchance a whole assortment of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter locations on different continents.

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

dns1.hosting.bright-it.asia

dns2.hosting.bright-it.asia

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you see a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote data storage service, as numerous hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very 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 only one tiny part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a couple of new clouds we currently don't know about will spring up unexpectedly.