What Does Cloud Website Hosting Denote?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Yet, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. Very few hosting suppliers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web portals, electronic mails, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering simply remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated solely to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or possibly a whole group of e-mail servers, depending on the total load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting distributor will support numerous datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting firm:

dns1.logicempower.net

dns2.logicempower.net

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server simply demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined just to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up out of nowhere.