What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web, and web hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, only a few know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make quite a long story short, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting supplier into a real cloud website hosting accounts provider. The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. There is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but," isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution based on a one-server hosting environment, like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the whole web hosting platform's remaining constituents must be functioning precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services in the whole web hosting process must also be remote, isolated, and "clouded." And that's quite tough. Very few web hosting distributors can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web pages, mail accounts, and so on, are we not? To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting," one calls for a lot more than supplying merely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated solely to the e-mail-related services. They are carrying out nothing else than these particular procedures. Based on the overall load produced, there might be only one single or maybe an entire bundle of email servers. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual amount, and executing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

An authentic cloud website hosting vendor's DNSs (Domain Name Servers) will support multiple data center facility sites on different continents. Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting vendor: dns1.web9.cloud dns2.web9.cloud If your hosting provider provides such a Domain Name Server, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can be sure when you discern a DNS such as the one below: dns658.hostgator.com dns659.hostgator.com That there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS only displays that the hosting platform is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has more than 98% market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited only to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous hosting companies wish it were. Unfortunately for them, if that were the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been classified as a cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to since they distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file-hosting platform is indeed very plain in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. Since it's merely one simple constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform, it cannot be. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will turn up unexpectedly.