What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Still, only a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage device for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting corporation into a genuine cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. Very few service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving many domain names, sites, mailbox aliases, etc., aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying plainly remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be just one single or perchance a whole bundle of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid 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 an authentic cloud hosting distributor will support numerous datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting company:

dns1.store.webdomain.tech

dns2.store.webdomain.tech

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they merely distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we presently are not informed about will emerge unexpectedly.