Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and web hosting jargon. Even so, just a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all users, does not convert any specific hosting corporation into an actual cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting service providers can really accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, online portals, mails, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing plainly remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the email associated services. Executing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or probably a whole cluster of email servers, based on the total load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.infinity-tech.online

dns2.infinity-tech.online

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server just illustrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as many hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately 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 ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will emerge unexpectedly.