Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Even so, only a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one single data storage device for all users, does not turn any specific provider into an actual cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can actually accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web sites, mail accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering just remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated only to the email linked services. Doing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or possibly a whole bundle of e-mail servers, determined by the overall load created. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting plans provider will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.contrast.reseller-hosting-themes.com

dns2.contrast.reseller-hosting-themes.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really quite 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 tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a number of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up unexpectedly.