Cloud Website Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting lingo. Still, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long tale brief, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one data storage appliance for all users, does not turn any given hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers call the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of web hosting distributors can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, online portals, email mailboxes, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying only remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the electronic mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or perchance a whole assortment of mail servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting supplier will support numerous server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.dlinkhost.com

dns2.dlinkhost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS plainly shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as many web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they merely provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge unexpectedly.