Cloud Website Hosting Explained

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Yet, only a few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long story succinct, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular service provider into an authentic cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very meager number of web hosting vendors can really attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, sites, electronic mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering simply remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted only to the electronic mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole assortment of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting solutions provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud hosting supplier:

dns1.openmindcloud.io

dns2.openmindcloud.io

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they simply provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple fraction of the entire 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 Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps several new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will emerge out of the blue.