Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting phraseology. However, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which involves one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting provider into an authentic cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. Very few hosting vendors can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web sites, email addresses, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing simply remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or perchance an entire pack of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have an authentic cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting accounts provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.www.articservers.com

dns2.www.articservers.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you notice a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will appear out of the blue.