Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting phraseology. Yet, just a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which involves one file storage tool for all users, does not convert any given web hosting service provider into a real cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to offer remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very meager number of web hosting distributors can truly attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, websites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than providing merely remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted just to the e-mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be just one or perchance a whole stack of email servers, based on the total load produced. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.azeerhosting.com

dns2.azeerhosting.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS only manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as numerous web hosting corporations 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 categorized as such, as they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a couple of new clouds we presently are not aware of will surface unexpectedly.