Cloud Hosting Definition

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Nevertheless, just a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story short, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which involves one single file storage tool for all users, does not convert any given hosting vendor into a real cloud hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting firms call the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very scanty number of hosting firms can actually accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, web pages, mails, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering merely remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the mail connected services. Performing nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one single or probably an entire bundle of mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have a genuine cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting corporation will support numerous datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting corporation:

dns1.sharplogics.com

dns2.sharplogics.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only indicates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote file storage solution, as numerous web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a few brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.