Call now! +1-855-211-0932
HomeWeb Hosting ArticlesWhat Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Nonetheless, only a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

Basic
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
1 website hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$3.00 / month
Advanced
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$3.75 / month
 

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting companies name the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can really achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, sites, e-mails, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing solely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the email linked services. Doing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire stack of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

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


dns1.dalihost.com

dns2.dalihost.com


If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage service, as lots of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a few new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up unexpectedly.