What Does Cloud Web Hosting Mean?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and web hosting jargon. Yet, just a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any specific web hosting vendor into an actual cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. Very few hosting distributors can truly do it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, sites, email aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than providing plainly remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated only to the email related services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be just one single or probably an entire bunch of electronic mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting vendor will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.rsp.6-h.net

dns2.rsp.6-h.net

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you discern a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS plainly manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited just to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up unexpectedly.