Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Still, only a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one disk storage device for all customers, does not turn any given web hosting distributor into a real cloud hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting providers call the ability to offer remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can actually achieve it.

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

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web pages, email box accounts, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the e-mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or perhaps a whole bundle of email servers, based on the total load produced. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting firm will support numerous data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting vendor:

dns1.mbsdigitalsolutions.com

dns2.mbsdigitalsolutions.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced 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 service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as multiple web hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will emerge out of nowhere.