Cloud Website Hosting Definition

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. Nevertheless, just a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one single data storage tool for all customers, does not turn any particular hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very small number of web hosting distributors can actually achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, web sites, email aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing merely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one or probably a whole group of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier will support multiple server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.4610hosting.com

dns2.4610hosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS just shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote disk storage solution, as multiple web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up out of nowhere.