Explanation of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single disk storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any given hosting distributor into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of hosting suppliers can truly attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, sites, e-mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing just remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be just one or possibly a whole group of email servers, determined by the total load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting supplier:

dns1.igshosting.com

dns2.igshosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server only displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined just to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous web hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly provide file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a number of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will show up out of nowhere.