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Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Yet, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one file storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very scanty number of hosting service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domain names, web sites, electronic mail accounts, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than offering plainly remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one or probably an entire stack of electronic mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have a true 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 clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting solutions provider will support multiple datacenter locations on different continents.

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


dns1.vehosty.com

dns2.vehosty.com


If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote file storage service, as many hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear unexpectedly.