What Indeed is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting terms. In spite of that, only a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular web hosting distributor into a genuine cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of hosting providers can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web pages, email aliases, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated just to the mail related services. Executing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one or perchance a whole stack of email servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

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

dns1.serverstech.net

dns2.serverstech.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited only to a remote data storage service, as many web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they simply distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably several brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will spring up out of the blue.