What Does Cloud Hosting Signify?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting phraseology. However, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story short, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not turn any specific hosting vendor into an actual cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to distribute remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. Very few hosting distributors can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, web pages, e-mails, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted just to the email related services. Executing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one or maybe an entire collection of email servers, determined by the total server load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.buyselldomain.name

dns2.buyselldomain.name

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited simply to a remote file storage service, as plenty of hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small fraction of the whole 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 DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps several new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface out of the blue.