What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. However, just a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long story succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not transform any particular web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. Very few web hosting corporations can truly make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving numerous domains, sites, e-mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted only to the email associated services. Executing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire set of email servers, depending on the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting accounts provider:

dns1.agskhosting.com

dns2.agskhosting.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS only displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a couple of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.