What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Even so, just a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all clients, does not convert any given hosting vendor into an authentic cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. Very few web hosting suppliers can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web sites, e-mail boxes, and so on, aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than providing only remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail linked services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be just one or possibly a whole collection of email servers, depending on the total load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting distributor will support numerous datacenter facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting supplier:

dns1.fofohost.com

dns2.fofohost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server merely reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined just to a remote data storage service, as numerous service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they plainly deliver file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will come up unexpectedly.