Cloud Hosting Uncovered

What is cloud hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, just a few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting distributor into an authentic cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other components of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few hosting service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Includes Domains, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web sites, e-mails, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing just remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted just to the mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or possibly a whole group of electronic mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting vendor will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting supplier:

dns1.reactr.site

dns2.reactr.site

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they merely supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a few new clouds we presently are not familiar with will come up unexpectedly.