Cloud Website Hosting Definition

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. However, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story concise, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting provider into an actual cloud hosting corporation.

The cPanel hosting vendors dub the ability to supply remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting service providers can really achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domains, online portals, mails, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing just remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one or perchance an entire cluster of e-mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting packages provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.webicloud.net

dns2.webicloud.net

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment 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 service. This type of DNS simply manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server takes care of all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined just to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks 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 just one simple part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will appear unexpectedly.