What In Fact is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting parlance. In spite of that, only a few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story short, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting provider into an actual cloud hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of web hosting providers can truly make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web portals, electronic mail accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated only to the electronic mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire group of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a DNS of a true cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.netreprisehosting.com

dns2.netreprisehosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS only shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited only to a remote data storage service, as numerous web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will emerge unexpectedly.