What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all users, does not turn any specific hosting firm into an authentic cloud website hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting suppliers can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, web sites, e-mail box accounts, etc., aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one single or probably a whole collection of mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting services provider will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.aviqu.com

dns2.aviqu.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you notice a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS simply demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will emerge out of the blue.