What Indeed is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage solution, which involves one single disk storage device for all customers, does not turn any particular web hosting corporation into a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up until now 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 invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can truly do it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web sites, mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than offering only remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated just to the email linked services. Doing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one single or probably an entire collection of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.cloudnode.work.gd

dns2.cloudnode.work.gd

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage service, as many hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a couple of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.