Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which involves one single disk storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any particular hosting vendor into a real cloud hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. Very few hosting firms can truly attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a hosting service, serving numerous domains, web sites, mailboxes, and so on, aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying only remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole bundle of mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting distributor will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.brandpluss.we.bs

dns2.brandpluss.we.bs

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you spot a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS just reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote file storage service, as multiple hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they merely provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one tiny fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a number of new clouds we presently are not aware of will spring up out of the blue.