Cloud Web Hosting Definition

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terminology. Still, just a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting supplier into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of hosting service providers can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving countless domain names, web sites, e-mailboxes, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering merely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or possibly a whole bunch of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.palmservers.com

dns2.palmservers.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you observe a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server handles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined just to a remote data storage service, as numerous web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty 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 near future, maybe a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will show up out of the blue.