What In Fact is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and web hosting jargon. Nevertheless, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long story short, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting supplier into a real cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting companies name the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of hosting vendors can actually do it.

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

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domain names, web sites, e-mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one or perhaps an entire bundle of e-mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting supplier will support multiple datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.webtroniclife.net

dns2.webtroniclife.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server simply exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited just to a remote data storage solution, as numerous web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny component of the entire cloud 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 e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a number of new clouds we currently don't know about will appear out of nowhere.