What Does Cloud Website Hosting Mean?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Still, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story short, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which involves one disk storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting supplier into a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only 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 quite difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting firms can truly attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web portals, mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing plainly remote file storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be just one or maybe an entire group of electronic mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting services provider will support multiple data center locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.superhosting.agency

dns2.superhosting.agency

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server only reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server handles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited just to a remote file storage service, as numerous web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one simple fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will appear unexpectedly.