Cloud Hosting Unmasked

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Nonetheless, only a few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not convert any specific web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors dub the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, based on a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of hosting providers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domains, Electronic Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, web portals, e-mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than providing only remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated only to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or maybe a whole array of email servers, depending on the total load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.

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

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

dns1.12281448.com

dns2.12281448.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as many hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they simply distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one tiny component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will appear out of the blue.