How Cloud Hosting Functions

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, only a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which involves one single data storage appliance for all users, does not transform any specific hosting company into a real cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of service providers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving countless domains, online portals, e-mail aliases, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying just remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated just to the mail related services. Executing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire stack of e-mail servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting firm:

dns1.webkindler.com

dns2.webkindler.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited simply to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fragment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several new clouds we currently are not aware of will appear out of the blue.