What In Fact is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Still, only a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting supplier into an actual cloud hosting company.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very small number of hosting suppliers can actually do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving many domain names, online portals, electronic mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Performing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one single or possibly an entire set of email servers, determined by the total load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting services provider will support numerous datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting company:

dns1.aus.ipguide.net

dns2.aus.ipguide.net

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 definitely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited just to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one small segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several brand new clouds we presently don't know about will appear out of the blue.