Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story brief, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any given hosting corporation into an authentic cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors call the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of hosting service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, sites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing simply remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the email connected services. Performing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire set of email servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, 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 corporation will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.resellvps.co.uk

dns2.resellvps.co.uk

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS just shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited simply to a remote file storage service, as numerous hosting service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they merely supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly several new clouds we presently are not informed about will spring up out of nowhere.