What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. Even so, just a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story concise, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote file storage service, which comprises one single data storage device for all users, does not convert any specific web hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can truly make it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving countless domains, web portals, mail aliases, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than providing only remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the email linked services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole bunch of e-mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting vendor will support numerous data center sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.www.exaquad.xyz

dns2.www.exaquad.xyz

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting plans provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we presently are not informed about will show up unexpectedly.