Cloud Web Hosting Unmasked

What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all clients, does not convert any particular web hosting distributor into a genuine cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, based on a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of hosting companies can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domains, web pages, email accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing only remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one single or perchance an entire pack of email servers, based on the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, 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 data center locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud hosting accounts provider:

dns1.web-hosting.seoexpertindian.com

dns2.web-hosting.seoexpertindian.com

If such a DNS 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 sure when you perceive a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as lots of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will spring up out of nowhere.