What Does Cloud Hosting Mean?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting parlance. However, just a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting service provider into an actual cloud website hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies name the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving lots of domains, sites, e-mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Doing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole set of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.us.f7en.biz

dns2.us.f7en.biz

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server merely manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine handles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote data storage service, as lots of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one small fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up out of the blue.