Cloud Website Hosting Explanation

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Even so, only a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which involves one data storage device for all users, does not convert any given hosting service provider into a real cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of web hosting providers can really make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domain names, online portals, e-mails, etc., right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering just remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the electronic mail related services. Executing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or possibly a whole collection of mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting vendor will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.

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

dns1.steerweb.com

dns2.steerweb.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server just illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined only to a remote data storage service, as a lot of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will come up out of the blue.