Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all users, does not turn any particular web hosting vendor into an authentic cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting firms call 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 web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, web sites, e-mails, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering simply remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the email connected services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or perchance an entire bunch of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting solutions provider will support numerous data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud hosting accounts provider:

dns1.hostatnocost.com

dns2.hostatnocost.com

If such a DNS 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 definitely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS just displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited just to a remote disk storage service, as many hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps several brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface out of the blue.