What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. Yet, just a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very meager number of hosting companies can truly make it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, online portals, e-mails, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than offering solely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or maybe an entire bunch of mail servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting solutions provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.

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

dns1.mbcwebhosting.com

dns2.mbcwebhosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS just illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly a bunch of new clouds we currently don't know about will show up out of nowhere.