What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. In spite of that, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale short, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one single data storage appliance for all users, does not turn any given web hosting vendor into a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely 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 extremely tough. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, websites, email accounts, and so on, right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated just to the email connected services. Executing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole pack of electronic mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider will support numerous data center locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.cloud.nome.host

dns2.cloud.nome.host

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you observe a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote file storage service, as lots of web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up out of the blue.