Description of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting terms. In spite of that, only a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which involves one single disk storage device for all users, does not convert any given web hosting provider into a genuine cloud hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of hosting corporations can really attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, online portals, e-mail boxes, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing simply remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one or probably a whole stack of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have an authentic cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web 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 provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting company:

dns1.jknetworks.co.uk

dns2.jknetworks.co.uk

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited solely to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will show up out of nowhere.