What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, Internet and hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story short, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single file storage tool for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting corporation into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very meager number of web hosting vendors can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, websites, mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the e-mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be only one or maybe a whole assortment of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud hosting firm:

dns1.hostopark.com

dns2.hostopark.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you discern a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined just to a remote data storage solution, as multiple web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they merely provide file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably several new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will surface out of nowhere.