Cloud Hosting Unmasked

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. However, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story brief, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting firm into an authentic cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting firms call the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting corporations can really make it.

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

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, web pages, e-mail boxes, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than offering just remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the email connected services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or possibly a whole pack of mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.

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

dns1.cloud-servers.reseller-hosting-themes.com

dns2.cloud-servers.reseller-hosting-themes.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you see a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS simply reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a few new clouds we currently are not aware of will turn up out of nowhere.