Cloud Hosting Definition
What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Even so, only a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale succinct, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all customers, does not turn any specific hosting vendor into a real cloud hosting services provider.
The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of hosting service providers can truly accomplish it.
2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web portals, email aliases, and so on, aren't we?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the mail related services. Performing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole group of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting company will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.
Here's an example of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting supplier:
dns1.etesla.biz
dns2.etesla.biz
If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you notice a DNS like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server just exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not confined just to a remote data storage service, as lots of hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a bunch of new clouds we currently are not informed about will emerge unexpectedly.
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