Cloud Hosting Definition

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. Yet, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale concise, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one data storage device for all clients, does not turn any particular web hosting supplier into an actual cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. Very few hosting providers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving many domains, online portals, email box accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing only remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted only to the mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one or perhaps a whole stack of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting firm will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.worldhosting.xyz

dns2.worldhosting.xyz

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS only manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of web hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they merely distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably several brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of nowhere.