What is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. In spite of that, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy story succinct, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single file storage device for all customers, does not transform any given hosting company into a genuine cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers dub the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, based on a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. Very few web hosting suppliers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, websites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering just remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one or maybe a whole cluster of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting accounts provider will support numerous data center sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting corporation:

dns1.godadywebhost.com

dns2.godadywebhost.com

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern 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 DNS just illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote file storage service, as numerous hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they merely supply file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a few new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will surface out of nowhere.