Definition of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Still, only a few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all customers, does not convert any given hosting vendor into an actual cloud website hosting services provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. Very few hosting distributors can actually achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domains, online portals, mailbox accounts, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than providing plainly remote file storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted only to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or maybe a whole bundle of e-mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.eusuperhost.eu

dns2.eusuperhost.eu

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS plainly manifests that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server handles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as numerous hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they plainly distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will surface out of the blue.