What Precisely is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting lingo. Even so, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story succinct, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting vendor into a real cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors name the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of hosting distributors can truly do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web portals, electronic mail accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing merely remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the mail associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one or perhaps an entire stack of email servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting plans provider will support numerous datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.host2netltd.co.uk

dns2.host2netltd.co.uk

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as many hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of nowhere.