What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Nonetheless, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting supplier into an actual cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting companies name the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can really do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, online portals, email addresses, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than offering only remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the e-mail connected services. Performing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be only one single or probably a whole stack of email servers, determined by the total server load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting distributor will support numerous server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.rootedwolfvps.com

dns2.rootedwolfvps.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you see a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited just to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they simply furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny fragment of the entire 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 Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a bunch of new clouds we currently are not informed about will show up unexpectedly.