What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. In spite of that, just a few actually know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which involves one data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any given hosting service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the entire 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 hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can actually accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domain names, web sites, electronic mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing only remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the email connected services. Performing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or maybe an entire group of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting services provider will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting provider:

dns1.ecocpanel.co.uk

dns2.ecocpanel.co.uk

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS plainly demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote file storage service, as many hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge out of nowhere.