Cloud Hosting Definition

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Nonetheless, just a few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story short, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single disk storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of web hosting vendors can really do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering only remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the email linked services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be only one single or perchance an entire stack of e-mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple server farm sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.outraged-hosting.com

dns2.outraged-hosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS just indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined only to a remote file storage service, as plenty of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will appear out of the blue.