What Does Cloud Website Hosting Signify?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long story short, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single file storage tool for all customers, does not convert any given web hosting distributor into an authentic cloud web hosting corporation.

The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other components of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. Very few web hosting providers can actually make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, email mailbox accounts, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than offering merely remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one or maybe an entire cluster of e-mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting plans provider will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting solutions provider:

dns1.cyanhosts.com

dns2.cyanhosts.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as many hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one tiny part 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 DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a bunch of new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge unexpectedly.