Explanation of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Nevertheless, just a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which involves one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting supplier into an actual cloud hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting companies name the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can actually accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domains, online portals, mail addresses, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than supplying solely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one single or possibly a whole cluster of email servers, depending on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting vendor will support numerous server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.buyweb.host

dns2.buyweb.host

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly manifests that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined only to a remote disk storage service, as numerous hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably several new clouds we presently are not familiar with will turn up unexpectedly.