Definition of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting phraseology. In spite of that, just a few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long tale succinct, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not convert any given web hosting firm into a genuine cloud website hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very small number of web hosting corporations can truly make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, web pages, mails, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering solely remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the email connected services. Executing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one or possibly a whole bunch of email servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.hostmagi.com

dns2.hostmagi.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly 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 copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as lots of web hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface out of the blue.