What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting lingo. In spite of that, just a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all customers, does not convert any particular hosting company into a real cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. Very few hosting corporations can truly make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, sites, e-mails, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering only remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted only to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one or probably a whole assortment of mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have an authentic cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting firm will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.

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

dns1.staging.starteweb.com

dns2.staging.starteweb.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 sure when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server simply shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined solely to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small component of the entire cloud 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 File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of nowhere.