Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terminology. However, just a few really know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not convert any specific web hosting distributor into an authentic cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can really do it.

2. It Entails Domains, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, sites, email box accounts, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering simply remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated solely to the mail related services. Performing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one single or probably a whole bundle of mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting solutions provider will support numerous datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.artechosting.com

dns2.artechosting.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 environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS merely exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as multiple hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a number of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.