What is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which comprises one single data storage tool for all clients, does not convert any specific web hosting service provider into a real cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few web hosting corporations can really do it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, email box accounts, and so on, right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering just remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the e-mail related services. Executing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one or probably a whole bunch of mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.www.madaiweb.com

dns2.www.madaiweb.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you notice a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS merely shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface out of the blue.