Cloud Hosting Definition

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Nonetheless, only a few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale succinct, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting supplier into an authentic cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. Very few hosting service providers can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web pages, electronic mail aliases, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than providing just remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole collection of mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.igshosting.com

dns2.igshosting.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS just exhibits that the web 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 is responsible for all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined simply to a remote disk storage service, as lots of web hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up out of the blue.