Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting
What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. In spite of that, only a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long tale brief, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Only.
1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular hosting firm into an authentic cloud hosting accounts provider.
The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very meager number of hosting corporations can truly attain it.
2. It Involves Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web portals, electronic mails, etc., aren't we?
To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying merely remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the mail related services. Performing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be just one single or perchance a whole collection of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting vendor will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting distributor:
dns1.cloudnode.top
dns2.cloudnode.top
If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server 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 reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Hosting.
So, a cloud hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as multiple web hosting service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will appear out of the blue.