Cloud Hosting Clarified

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Even so, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy story concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting provider into an actual cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very small number of hosting distributors can truly make it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Boxes, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web sites, electronic mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying simply remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the e-mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one single or perchance a whole set of email servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.domainhost.pro

dns2.domainhost.pro

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS merely displays that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they simply distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will spring up out of nowhere.