What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Yet, only a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all customers, does not convert any specific hosting vendor into an authentic cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting firms name the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very scanty number of web hosting service providers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, mail aliases, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing simply remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one single or perchance an entire array of mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting provider will support numerous datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.www.hostoffice.com

dns2.www.hostoffice.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS just shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they plainly distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one simple fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a few brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will surface out of nowhere.