What Indeed is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Even so, only a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which involves one single data storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any given hosting provider into an actual cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of web hosting distributors can truly accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, web pages, email aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or maybe an entire assortment of mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting services provider will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.globalsupreme.com

dns2.globalsupreme.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS plainly illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted only to a remote data storage service, as a lot of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up out of the blue.