What Actually is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one file storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular hosting corporation into an authentic cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers call the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very small number of hosting providers can truly do it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web portals, e-mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering simply remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the email related services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or perchance an entire array of email servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing different. 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 solutions provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

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

dns1.villpresshost.com

dns2.villpresshost.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS simply shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote file storage service, as many hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up out of the blue.