Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Even so, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long tale brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one disk storage tool for all users, does not turn any specific provider into a real cloud hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting firms call the ability to supply remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very small number of web hosting distributors can actually attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving countless domain names, web portals, electronic mails, etc., right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering simply remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one or possibly an entire bundle of e-mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting vendor:

dns1.thundersparkweb.host

dns2.thundersparkweb.host

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined only to a remote data storage solution, as many web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they merely distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we presently don't know about will show up out of nowhere.