Cloud Web Hosting Uncovered

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting jargon. However, just a few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single file storage device for all customers, does not turn any particular web hosting vendor into an actual cloud web hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to provide remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of hosting firms can truly achieve it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, web sites, e-mail addresses, etc., right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering just remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated solely to the electronic mail related services. Executing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be only one or maybe a whole collection of mail servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.pcclub.info

dns2.pcclub.info

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS plainly illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote data storage service, as numerous hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will come up unexpectedly.