What Does Cloud Hosting Denote?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. However, just a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long tale short, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any particular hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, based on a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. Very few hosting companies can actually make it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving plenty of domains, websites, email box accounts, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than offering only remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one or maybe a whole set of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting company will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.

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

dns1.brandpluss.we.bs

dns2.brandpluss.we.bs

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform appears indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably several new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will turn up out of nowhere.