What Does Cloud Hosting Signify?

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terminology. Even so, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting vendor into an authentic cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of web hosting service providers can really make it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, web portals, email aliases, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the e-mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one or probably an entire pack of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real quantity. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting services provider:

dns1.stsinternet.com

dns2.stsinternet.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS merely indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted only to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a couple of new clouds we presently are not informed about will show up unexpectedly.