What Does Cloud Website Hosting Denote?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Nonetheless, only a few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all users, does not turn any specific service provider into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can truly do it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, online portals, mail aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing only remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the mail connected services. Performing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or perchance a whole bundle of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting accounts provider will support numerous data center locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.cxfhost.com

dns2.cxfhost.com

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident 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 type of DNS plainly displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted only to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear out of the blue.