What is Cloud Web Hosting?
What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Still, just a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.
1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all users, does not transform any given hosting firm into an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider.
The cPanel hosting vendors dub the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient 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 other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very meager number of hosting firms can really do it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, mailbox accounts, etc., aren't we?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing solely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the electronic mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire assortment of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting packages provider will support numerous datacenter facility locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting distributor:
dns1.yirsitehosting.com
dns2.yirsitehosting.com
If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you see a DNS like the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote file storage service, as many service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they plainly deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface out of nowhere.