Cloud 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 jargon. In spite of that, only a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one data storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific service provider into an actual cloud hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. Very few web hosting corporations can actually make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, sites, e-mails, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than offering merely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted just to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one or maybe a whole stack of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting distributor:

dns1.www.webplus.com.pk

dns2.www.webplus.com.pk

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you notice a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will surface unexpectedly.