What In Fact is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. However, just a select few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story concise, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which comprises one single data storage tool for all customers, does not turn any specific hosting distributor into an authentic cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very meager number of hosting service providers can really make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web pages, e-mails, etc., are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire set of email servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting services provider will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.pcclub.info

dns2.pcclub.info

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage solution, as many hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear unexpectedly.