What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and web hosting terminology. Nonetheless, just a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale short, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting firm into a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors name the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very meager number of web hosting providers can actually accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, web portals, e-mailboxes, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than distributing simply remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one or perchance a whole group of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.digitalnetwork.id

dns2.digitalnetwork.id

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS only displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably 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, a single server takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will appear out of nowhere.