Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. Still, just a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one single disk storage tool for all users, does not turn any specific hosting firm into a genuine cloud hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting providers call the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can really achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web pages, electronic mails, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing solely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the email associated services. Performing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps an entire cluster of e-mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting supplier will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting firm:

dns1.hosting.etesla.gr

dns2.hosting.etesla.gr

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you see a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS simply exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single server takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will come up out of nowhere.