Cloud Web Hosting Definition

What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. Still, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which involves one disk storage tool for all clients, does not turn any given hosting supplier into an authentic cloud hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors call the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very small number of web hosting service providers can actually do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving many domain names, web portals, e-mail box accounts, etc., right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing merely remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the email related services. Executing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire bunch of mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting plans provider will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a true cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.islehosting.com

dns2.islehosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server just indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.