Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. Nonetheless, only a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one single file storage device for all clients, does not turn any specific web hosting service provider into an authentic cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can really make it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web portals, mailbox accounts, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing just remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the email connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole stack of mail servers, determined by the total server load created. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting corporation will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting distributor:

dns1.3000host.com

dns2.3000host.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will appear unexpectedly.