What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Still, just a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long tale succinct, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting supplier into a genuine cloud hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few hosting suppliers can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web portals, electronic mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than providing merely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or perchance a whole collection of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting supplier will support numerous data center locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.merwinservers.net

dns2.merwinservers.net

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server simply manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as multiple hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they simply offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a few new clouds we presently are not familiar with will appear out of the blue.