What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Yet, only a few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story short, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting service provider into a real cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very meager number of hosting service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, sites, email addresses, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than distributing merely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the electronic mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole assortment of email servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting company will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.hosting.fuhri.net

dns2.hosting.fuhri.net

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server merely indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited just to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably a few new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of the blue.