Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terms. Still, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage appliance for all users, does not transform any particular hosting firm into an authentic cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors call the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the entire 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 entailed in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very meager number of web hosting companies can truly achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web pages, email accounts, and so on, are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the electronic mail related services. Executing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one or maybe an entire group of mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting distributor will support numerous data center sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.website-hosting.aticy.com

dns2.website-hosting.aticy.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS just illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server handles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up out of the blue.