Description of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terminology. Yet, just a few really know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story brief, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any particular hosting supplier into an actual cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting corporations name the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting vendors can really make it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Emails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, websites, email addresses, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email related services. Doing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one or perchance an entire assortment of email servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting plans provider will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting company:

dns1.quiyada.website

dns2.quiyada.website

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server only demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined solely to a remote data storage service, as a lot of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small 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 Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.