What Indeed is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Even so, just a few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly notify you about 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 comprises one data storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any particular hosting vendor into a real cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel hosting firms name the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting service providers can really achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving numerous domains, web sites, e-mail box accounts, etc., aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering just remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted only to the mail related services. Doing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or possibly an entire stack of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a true cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider:

dns1.ng.suuhost.com

dns2.ng.suuhost.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you discern a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited just to a remote disk storage service, as many service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few new clouds we presently are not aware of will surface out of the blue.