What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Yet, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one disk storage device for all customers, does not turn any particular web hosting supplier into an authentic cloud hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of hosting service providers can really accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Aliases, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web portals, email boxes, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing simply remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be just one or perchance an entire array of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting services provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.villpresshost.com

dns2.villpresshost.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they simply offer file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web 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, maybe a few brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will spring up out of nowhere.