How Cloud Hosting Functions

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Yet, only a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long tale concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular web hosting firm into an authentic cloud hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very meager number of hosting providers can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving plenty of domain names, web portals, email aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than supplying plainly remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Executing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one or perchance an entire bunch of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting firm will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.yupeee.org

dns2.yupeee.org

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited only to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably several new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge out of the blue.