What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Yet, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story brief, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage tool for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting supplier into an authentic cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. Very few hosting vendors can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, sites, e-mails, etc., right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing only remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail related services. Doing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or maybe a whole bundle of e-mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting provider will support multiple data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.serverpremier.com

dns2.serverpremier.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server just exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really quite 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 simply one tiny fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we presently are not familiar with will appear unexpectedly.