Explanation of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. However, only a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any particular web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. Very few hosting corporations can actually achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web portals, mailboxes, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering just remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one or perchance an entire collection of mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting distributor will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting supplier:

dns1.aus.ipguide.net

dns2.aus.ipguide.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS simply displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited just to a remote disk storage service, as numerous hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they plainly offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one tiny constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably several new clouds we currently are not aware of will turn up out of the blue.