Definition of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Nevertheless, only a few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long tale concise, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which involves one single disk storage device for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting vendor into a real cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can actually accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving many domain names, online portals, e-mailboxes, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering solely remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated solely to the email linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be just one or perchance a whole set of email servers, based on the overall load created. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an example of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting firm:

dns1.hostid.biz

dns2.hostid.biz

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see 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 Domain Name Server merely shows that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined just to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly offer file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one simple constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several new clouds we currently don't know about will turn up out of the blue.