What Does Cloud Hosting Represent?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. However, only a few really know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting supplier into a real cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting companies can truly do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving many domains, sites, email addresses, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than furnishing just remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be only one single or probably an entire array of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting company will support multiple datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.www.portaltaxi.net

dns2.www.portaltaxi.net

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up out of the blue.